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It is argued that the appropriate framework to describe a microsystem as a correlation carrier between a source and a detector is non-equilibrium statistical mechanics for the compound source-detector system. An attempt is given to elucidate how this idealized notion of microsystem might arise inside a field theoretical description of isolated macrosystems: then decoherence appears as the natural limit of this idealization.
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Lanz, L., Vacchini, B., Melsheimer, O. (2002). Decoherence Versus the Idealization of Microsystems as Correlation Carriers Between Macrosystems. In: Tombesi, P., Hirota, O. (eds) Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47114-0_14
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