Exponential Behavior of a Quantum System in a Macroscopic Medium

22 August 1994

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 73 (8) , 1063-1066
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.1063

Abstract

An exponential behavior at all times is derived for a solvable dynamical model in the weak-coupling macroscopic limit. Some implications for the quantum measurement problems are discussed, in particular in connection with dissipation.

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