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Decoherence Versus the Idealization of Microsystems as Correlation Carriers Between Macrosystems

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Abstract

It is argued that the appropriate framework to describe a microsystem as a correlation carrier between a source and a detector is non-equilibrium statistical mechanics for the compound source-detector system. An attempt is given to elucidate how this idealized notion of microsystem might arise inside a field theoretical description of isolated macrosystems: then decoherence appears as the natural limit of this idealization.

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  1. Sezione di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica dell’ Università di Milano and INFN, Via Celoria 16, I-20133, Milano, Italy

    Ludovico Lanz & Bassano Vacchini

  2. Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität, Renthof 7, D-35032, Marburg, Germany

    Olaf Melsheimer

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  1. University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

    Paolo Tombesi

  2. Tamagawa University, Machida, Tokyo, Japan

    Osamu Hirota

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Lanz, L., Vacchini, B., Melsheimer, O. (2002). Decoherence Versus the Idealization of Microsystems as Correlation Carriers Between Macrosystems. In: Tombesi, P., Hirota, O. (eds) Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47114-0_14

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