Quantum State Diffusion: from Foundations to Applications
Abstract
Deeper insight leads to better practice. We show how the study of the foundations of quantum mechanics has led to new pictures of open systems and to a method of computation which is practical and can be used where others cannot. We illustrate the power of the new method by a series of pictures that show the emergence of classical features in a quantum world. We compare the development of quantum mechanics and of the theory of (biological) evolution.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 1997
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/9701024
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/9701024
- Bibcode:
- 1997quant.ph..1024G
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, TeX, 6 Figures available from the authors. To appear in "Festschrift" in honor of Abner Shimony