Sep 17 – 21, 2022
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University
Europe/Warsaw timezone
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Quantum Theory of the Classical: Einselection, Envariance, and Quantum Darwinism

Sep 19, 2022, 9:00 AM
45m
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University

Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University

Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
Invited talk Monday session

Speaker

Prof. Wojciech Żurek (Los Alamos National Lab)

Description

Core quantum postulates including the superposition principle and the unitarity of evolutions are natural and strikingly simple. I show that - when supplemented with a limited version of predictability (captured in the textbook accounts by the repeatability postulate) - these core postulates can account for all the symptoms of classicality. In particular, both objective classical reality and elusive information about reality arise, via quantum Darwinism, from the quantum substrate.

Primary author

Prof. Wojciech Żurek (Los Alamos National Lab)

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