Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism - From Quantum Foundations to Classical Reality

"How does the 'classical' world emerge from our quantum mechanical universe? In this book, a pioneer of decoherence theory examines quantum foundations and exploits information theory to introduce "Quantum Darwinism" and answer this key question. Essential reading for students and researchers interested in the interpretation of quantum theory"--

List of contents

Preface; Part I. Foundations: 1. Introduction; 2. Discrete events from repeatability: 'Quantum Jumps' and the wave packet collapse; 3. Born's rule from the symmetries of entanglement; Part II. Decoherence: 4. Environment-induced decoherence; 5. Decoherence, Einselection, and its consequences; 6. Quantum and classical in phase space: decoherence and the second law; Part III. Quantum Darwinism: 7. Quantum Darwinism: environment as a witness; 8. Quantum Darwinism in action; 9. Quantum Darwinism and the existential interpretation.

About the author

Wojciech Hubert Zurek is a Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos. Credited with developing the theory of decoherence, he is also known for Quantum Darwinism, the no-cloning theorem (a cornerstone of quantum information) and quantum discord. Applications of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism that describes creation of topological defects in phase transitions range from cosmology to condensed matter physics. Zurek is a recipient of the Smoluchowski and Los Alamos Medals and a Humboldt Prize. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Science and Technology in Cracow (AGH), the Jagiellonian University, and was Einstein Professor at the Ulm University.

Product details

• Authors: Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Wojciech Hubert (Los Alamos National Labora Zurek
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009552899
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955289-9
• No. of pages: 375
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Applied optics, Atomic & molecular physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics