Quantum Limit of Decoherence: Environment Induced Superselection of Energy Eigenstates
- 28 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 82 (26) , 5181-5185
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.82.5181
Abstract
We investigate decoherence in the limit where the interaction with the environment is weak and the evolution is dominated by the self-Hamiltonian of the system. We show that in this case quantized eigenstates of energy emerge as pointer states selected through the predictability sieve.Keywords
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