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Quantum Theory of the Classical: Einselection, Envariance, Quantum Darwinism and Extantons

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09019v1
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:46:53 GMT
Title: Quantum Theory of the Classical: Einselection, Envariance, Quantum Darwinism and Extantons
Authors: Wojciech Hubert Zurek
Abstract summary: Core quantum postulates including the superposition principle and the unitarity of evolutions are natural and strikingly simple. I show that -- when supplemented with a limited version of predictability (captured in the textbook accounts by the repeatability postulate) -- these core postulates can account for all the symptoms of classicality.
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Abstract: Core quantum postulates including the superposition principle and the unitarity of evolutions are natural and strikingly simple. I show that -- when supplemented with a limited version of predictability (captured in the textbook accounts by the repeatability postulate) -- these core postulates can account for all the symptoms of classicality. In particular, both objective classical reality and elusive information about reality arise, via quantum Darwinism, from the quantum substrate.

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