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The meaning of decoherence as a (practically) irreversible process in Quantum Mechanics is discussed. Also a simple two-particle model is introduced consisting of a heavy (the system) and a light (the environment) particle and the decoherence effect is explicitly computed on the heavy particle due to the presence of the light one.
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Teta, A. (2014). A Simple Model for Decoherence. In: Albeverio, S., Blanchard, P. (eds) Direction of Time. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02798-2_2
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