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View SchemaThe decoherence criterion
| Authors | Eleonora Alfinito, Rosario G. Viglione, Giuseppe Vitiello |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0007020 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007020 |
| DOI | 10.1142/S0217984901001410 |
| Journal | Mod.Phys.Lett. B15 (2001) 127-136 |
Abstract
The decoherence mechanism signals the limits beyond which the system dynamics approaches the classical behavior. We show that in some cases decoherence may also signal the limits beyond which the system dynamics has to be described by quantum field theory, rather than by quantum mechanics.
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