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  title info:
    title: Decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theory
  name:
    name part: Giulini, Domenico.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Joos, Erich.
  name:
    name part: Kiefer, Claus.
  name:
    name part: Kupsch, Joachim.
  name:
    name part: Stamatescu, Ion-Olimpiu.
  name:
    name part: Zeh, H. Dieter.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 366 pages)
  abstract: Decoherence, a concept known only to few physicists when the first edition appeared in 1996, has since become firmly established experimentally and understood theoretically, as well as widely reported in the literature. The major consequences of decoherence are the emergence of "classicality" in general, superselection rules, the border line between microscopic and macroscopic behavior in molecules and field theory, the emergence of classical spacetime, and the appearance of quantum jumps. The most important new developments in this rapidly evolving field are included in the second edition of this book, which has become a standard reference on the subject. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. New fields of application now addressed span chaos theory, quantum information, neuroscience, primordial fluctuations in cosmology, black holes and string theory, experimental tests, and interpretational issues. While the major part of the book is concerned with environmental decoherence derived from a universal Schrödinger equation, later chapters address related or competing methods, such as consistent histories, open system dynamics, algebraic approaches, and collapse models.
  table of contents: Introduction (E. Joos) -- The Program of Decoherence: Ideas and Concepts (H.D. Zeh) -- Decoherence Through Interaction with the Environment (E. Joos) -- Decoherence in Quantum Field Theory (C. Kiefer) -- Consistent Histories and Decoherence (C. Kiefer) -- Superselection Rules and Symmetries (D. Giulini) -- Open Quantum Systems (J. Kupsch) -- Stochastic Collapse Models (I.O. Stamatescu) -- Related Ideas and Concepts (H.D. Zeh) -- Appendices -- References.
  note: by Domenico Giulini, Erich Joos, Claus Kiefer, Joachim Kupsch, Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu, H. Dieter Zeh.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
  identifier: 9783662032633 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3662032635 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783662032657
  identifier: 3662032651
  identifier: 3662032635
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130220
    record change date: 20260423141400.0
    record identifier: in00003557754
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng