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arxiv: 0704.3615 · v1 · submitted 2007-04-26 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.mes-hall· hep-th

Quantum Darwinism in quantum Brownian motion: the vacuum as a witness

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hallhep-th
keywords quantumbrowniandarwinismmotionredundancystatesystemcauses
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We study quantum Darwinism -- the redundant recording of information about a decohering system by its environment -- in zero-temperature quantum Brownian motion. An initially nonlocal quantum state leaves a record whose redundancy increases rapidly with its spatial extent. Significant delocalization (e.g., a Schroedinger's Cat state) causes high redundancy: many observers can measure the system's position without perturbing it. This explains the objective (i.e. classical) existence of einselected, decoherence-resistant pointer states of macroscopic objects.

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