Many worlds: decoherent or incoherent?

DOI10.1007/S11229-014-0650-8MaRDI QIDQ514115zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Dawid, Karim P. Y. Thébault

Publication date 8 March 2017

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9542/1/Decoherence_Archive.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

emergenceprobabilityquantum mechanicsdecoherenceEverett interpretationmany worlds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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• \(\Psi\)-epistemic quantum cosmology?
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