Abstract
Bernard d’Espagnat. We have the pleasure of welcoming among us Alexei Grinbaum. During our last session, thanks to Jean-Michel Raimond’s brilliant presentation, we saw experimentally that physical systems which have a typically quantum behaviour at time 0+ have a classical behaviour later on. This constitutes a very strong indication, not to say an experimental proof, that there are not two types of systems, one obeying quantum physics and the other obeying classical physics, but on the contrary that there is only one physics, even if depending on the circumstances, physical systems can appear to us either under a quantum or a classical aspect.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
See session III “Experimental investigation of decoherence”.
The author comes back to this topic during session VIII “Exchange of views on the relational interpretation”.
I describe in detail the mathematical aspects of this approach in my article: “Quantum observer and Kolmogorov complexity: a model that can be tested”, arXiv: 1007.2756.
In English.
Cf. for example Wojciech H. Zurek, “Environment induced superselection rules”, Phys. Rev. D, 26, 1982, p. 1862–1880.
Wojciech H. Zurek, “Decoherence, Einselection and the quantum origin of the classical”, Rev. Mod. Phys., 76, 2003, p. 715–775.
Zurek, op. cit., 2003, p. 5.
Antoine Augustin Cournot.
Wojciech H. Zurek, “Decoherence and the transition from quantum to classical”, Los Alamos Science, 27, 2002.
Erich Joos et al. (eds), Springer-Verlag, 2nd ed., 2003.
Carleton University, 1973.
Those who are interested will find a very good summary of Mackey’s work in: Veeravalli S Varadarajan, “George Mackey and His Work on Representation Theory and Foundations of Physics”, 2000. Section 7 is dedicated to hidden variables and the Mackey-Gleason theorem.
Guido Bacciagaluppi & Antony Valentini (eds), Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
See session V, “The pilot-wave theory of Louis de Broglie and David Bohm” (and session VI, “The pilot-wave theory: problems and difficulties”).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Consortia
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Round Table., Zwirn, H. (2017). Theoretical Aspects of Decoherence. In: d'Espagnat, B., Zwirn, H. (eds) The Quantum World. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55420-4_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55420-4_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-55419-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-55420-4
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)