Consensus About Classical Reality in a Quantum Universe

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14791v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:44:42 GMT
• Title: Consensus About Classical Reality in a Quantum Universe
• Authors: Akram Touil, Bin Yan, Wojciech H. Zurek,
• Abstract summary: Quantum Darwinism recognizes that decoherence imprints redundant records of preferred quasi-classical pointer states on the environment.<n>We show how redundancy enables and even implies consensus between observers who use fragments of that decohering environment to acquire information about systems of interest.
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• Abstract: Quantum Darwinism recognizes that decoherence imprints redundant records of preferred quasi-classical pointer states on the environment. These redundant records are then accessed by observers. We show how redundancy enables and even implies consensus between observers who use fragments of that decohering environment to acquire information about systems of interest. We quantify consensus using information-theoretic measures that employ mutual information to assess the correlation between the records available to observers from distinct -- hence, independently accessible -- fragments of the environment. We prove that when these fragments have enough information about a system, observers that access them will attribute the same pointer state to that system. Thus, those who know enough about the system agree about what they know. We then test proposed measures of consensus in a solvable model of decoherence as well as in numerical simulations of a many-body system. These results provide detailed understanding of how our classical everyday world arises from within the fundamentally quantum Universe we inhabit.

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