EIGENSTATES. “Decoherence is a process that rapidly puts macroscopic objects (including tiny ones such as dust particles) that interact with their environment (even very slightly, such as with the microwave background radiation) into mixtures, whose components are, in typical cases, approximate position eigenstates. The process diffuses the interference terms characteristic of the macro-object’s initial superposition into the environment, so that its statistical behaviour is as if it is in a mixture—and a mixture of states that have definite values for familiar quantities like position, or quantities very ‘close’ to those like position.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022