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Decoherence from Time Dilation

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Quantum Systems under Gravitational Time Dilation

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This chapter generalises the discussion of time dilation effects on “clocks”—quantum systems whose internal states are pure and time evolving (Chap. 5)—to systems in an arbitrary internal state.

This chapter builds upon and Sects. 6.3, 6.4 contain material from Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation, I. Pikovski, M. Zych, F. Costa, and Č. Brukner, Nat. Phys. 8, 668–672 (2015).

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Zych, M. (2017). Decoherence from Time Dilation. In: Quantum Systems under Gravitational Time Dilation. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53192-2_6

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