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Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical

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Decoherence is caused by the interaction with the environment. Environment monitors certain observables of the system, destroying interference between the pointer states corresponding to their eigenvalues. This leads to environment-induced superselection or einselection, a quantum process associated with selective loss of information. Einselected pointer states are stable. They can retain correlations with the rest of the Universe in spite of the environment. Einselection enforces classicality by imposing an effective ban on the vast majority of the Hilbert space, eliminating especially the flagrantly non-local "Schr\"odinger cat" states. Classical structure of phase space emerges from the quantum Hilbert space in the appropriate macroscopic limit: Combination of einselection with dynamics leads to the idealizations of a point and of a classical trajectory. In measurements, einselection replaces quantum entanglement between the apparatus and the measured system with the classical correlation.

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gr-qc · 2026-06-20 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Scalar-induced tensor modes inherit anomalous coherence from a decohered two-mode Gaussian scalar state, generating nonzero tensor discord and connected power covariance as probes of primordial quantum memory.

Teleocosmology and quantum post-selection

gr-qc · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Post-selection on a Chern-Simons soliton in minisuperspace quantum cosmology yields an accelerating trajectory from a free radiation Hamiltonian with zero cosmological constant.

Krylov Complexity for Open Quantum System: Dissipation and Decoherence

hep-th · 2025-09-18 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Krylov complexity saturates in the full high-temperature Caldeira-Leggett system, reproduces dissipative features when decoherence is suppressed, shows oscillations when dissipation is suppressed, and remains insensitive to decoherence onset because the Krylov basis differs from the conventional one

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