A simple necessary decoherence condition for a set of histories

Artur Scherer; Andrei N. Soklakov; Rüdiger Schack

doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2004.04.050

A simple necessary decoherence condition for a set of histories

Artur Scherer, Andrei N. Soklakov^*, Rüdiger Schack

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Abstract

Within the decoherent histories formulation of quantum mechanics, we investigate necessary conditions for decoherence of arbitrarily long histories. We prove that fine-grained histories of arbitrary length decohere for all classical initial states if and only if the unitary evolution preserves classicality of states (using a natural formal definition of classicality). We give a counterexample showing that this equivalence does not hold for coarse-grained histories.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307-314
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physics Letters. Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume	326
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2004.04.050
Publication status	Published - 14 Jun 2004
Externally published	Yes

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Decoherent histories

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