The paper argues that black hole interiors, Rindler horizons, and de Sitter horizons all emerge from coarse-graining soft modes of low-energy fields, selected by the Born rule.
Objective properties from subjective quantum states: Environment as a witness
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We study the emergence of objective properties in open quantum systems. In our analysis, the environment is promoted from a passive role of reservoir selectively destroying quantum coherence, to an active role of amplifier selectively proliferating information about the system. We show that only preferred pointer states of the system can leave a redundant and therefore easily detectable imprint on the environment. Observers who--as it is almost always the case--discover the state of the system indirectly (by probing a fraction of its environment) will find out only about the corresponding pointer observable. Many observers can act in this fashion independently and without perturbing the system: they will agree about the state of the system. In this operational sense, preferred pointer states exist objectively.
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Spacetime and Universal Soft Modes --- Black Holes and Beyond
The paper argues that black hole interiors, Rindler horizons, and de Sitter horizons all emerge from coarse-graining soft modes of low-energy fields, selected by the Born rule.