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  title info:
    title: Decoherence and the Quantum-To-Classical Transition
  name:
    name part: Schlosshauer, Maximilian.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 418 p. online resource.
  abstract: The ultimate introduction, textbook, and reference on decoherence and the quantum-to-classical transition. This detailed but accessible text describes the concepts, formalism, interpretation, and experimental observation of decoherence and explains how decoherence is responsible for the emergence, from the realm of quantum mechanics, of the classical world of our experience. Topics include: • Foundational problems at the quantum–classical border; • The role of the environment and entanglement; • Environment-induced loss of coherence and superselection; • Scattering-induced decoherence and spatial localization; • Master equations; • Decoherence models; • Experimental realization of "Schrödinger kittens" and their decoherence; • Quantum computing, quantum error correction, and decoherence-free subspaces; • Implications of decoherence for interpretations of quantum mechanics and for the "measurement problem"; • Decoherence in the brain. Written in a lucid and concise style that is accessible to all readers with a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, this stimulating book tells the "classical from quantum" story in a comprehensive and coherent manner that brings together the foundational, technical, and experimental aspects of decoherence. It will be an indispensable resource for newcomers and experts alike. "Reads like a bestseller. An engaging and intuitive treatment of a very important subject, combining the scope of a monograph with the clarity of a textbook and the intellectual excitement of a Sherlock Holmes adventure." Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos "Everyone who works in the borderlands between quantum and classical physics, from philosophers of physics to quantum-computer technologists, will find much here to stimulate and inspire." Gerard Milburn, University of Queensland "A thorough, readable, and very useful account of decoherence theory and its diverse applications. Valuable as a text and as a reference work, both for graduate students and for active researche…
  table of contents: Introducing Decoherence -- The Basic Formalism and Interpretation of Decoherence -- Decoherence Is Everywhere: Localization Due to Environmental Scattering -- Master-Equation Formulations of Decoherence -- A World of Spins and Oscillators: Canonical Models for Decoherence -- Of Buckey Balls and SQUIDs: Observing Decoherence in Action -- Decoherence and Quantum Computing -- The Role of Decoherence in Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics -- Observations, the Quantum Brain, and Decoherence.
  note: by Maximilian Schlosshauer.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum computers
  subject:
    topic: Spintronics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783540357759
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35775-9
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204180921.0
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