Many worlds: decoherent or incoherent?

DOI10.1007/s11229-014-0650-8zbMath1359.81016OpenAlexW2030072077MaRDI QIDQ514115

Karim P. Y. Thébault, Richard Dawid

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

zbMATH Keywords

decoherenceprobabilityquantum mechanicsemergenceEverett interpretationmany worlds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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