Quasiclassical dynamics in a closed quantum system
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 54 (6) , 4670-4675
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.54.4670
Abstract
We consider Gell-Mann and Hartle’s consistent histories formulation of quantum cosmology in the interpretation in which one history, chosen randomly according to the decoherence functional probabilities, is realized from each consistent set. We show that in this interpretation, if one assumes that an observed quasiclassical structure will continue to be quasiclassical, one cannot infer that it will obey the predictions of classical or Copenhagen quantum mechanics. © 1996 The American Physical Society.Keywords
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