Decoherence: From Interpretation to Experiment

Schlosshauer, Maximilian

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-88781-0_3

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“…)—this puzzle is resolved by decoherence. Let us call this the Variables Problem (elsewhere I have referred to this as the problem of general outcomes, following Schlosshauer 2007).…”

Section: Defining and Deflating The Measurement Problemmentioning

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Interpretation Neutrality for Quantum Theology

Crull¹

2023

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Within contemporary scientific and science‐adjacent communities, it is generally accepted that quantum physics is our best theory. For this reason, it is understandable—and laudable—that scholars interested in questions at the intersection of science and theology wish to meaningfully engage with this physics. Recent work in foundations of physics has, however, importantly altered the landscape of quantum theory; in this article, my goal is to introduce these advances, then make an argument within this new landscape that I hope will be useful for certain theological inquiries. Specifically, I shall argue from grounds of the physics itself that one may, with clear philosophical conscience, access the majority of quantum theory's tools, models, and explanations while maintaining an interpretation‐neutral yet realist stance toward this physics.

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“…)—this puzzle is resolved by decoherence. Let us call this the Variables Problem (elsewhere I have referred to this as the problem of general outcomes, following Schlosshauer 2007).…”

Section: Defining and Deflating The Measurement Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…22See Schlosshauer (2007) chapter 5 and references therein for an introduction to this crucial decoherence model.…”

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Interpretation Neutrality for Quantum Theology

Crull¹

2023

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“…This peculiarity is related to the fact that subsystems, located afar from each other, which interacted in the past, during a small lapse of time, still keep a very peculiar correlation -a limbo state -that may be portrayed as a fragile and intangible virtual thread intertwining them. This kind of correlation can be disrupted either by a measurement on one of the subsystems or through the action of some uncontrollable external interference commonly attributed to the environment, and known as decoherence [40][41][42].…”

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Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics Portrayed as a Human Twins’ Metaphor

Mizrahi

2023

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“…As noted above, the presence of interference terms is referred to as coherence. The processes leading to the disappearance of such terms are therefore called decoherence [ 75 , 83 , 84 ]. Something more than decoherence is needed, however, to explain a unique outcome for any a measurement event [ 79 ] (Section 1) [ 85 , 86 , 87 ].…”

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Quantum Mechanics: Statistical Balance Prompts Caution in Assessing Conceptual Implications

Drummond

2022

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Throughout quantum mechanics there is statistical balance, in the collective response of an ensemble of systems to differing measurement types. Statistical balance is a core feature of quantum mechanics, underlying quantum mechanical states, and not yet explained. The concept of “statistical balance” is here explored, comparing its meaning since 2019 with its original meaning in 2001. Statistical balance now refers to a feature of contexts in which: (a) there is a prescribed probability other than 0 or 1 for the collective response of an ensemble to one measurement type; and (b) the collective response of the same ensemble to another measurement type demonstrates that no well-defined value can be attributed, for the property relevant to the original measurement type, to individual members of the ensemble. In some unexplained way, the outcomes of single runs of a measurement of the original type “balance” each other to give an overall result in line with the prescribed probability. Unexplained statistical balance prompts caution in assessing the conceptual implications of entanglement, measurement, uncertainty, and two-slit and Bell-type analyses. Physicists have a responsibility to the wider population to be conceptually precise about quantum mechanics, and to make clear that many possible conceptual implications are uncertain.

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Decoherence: From Interpretation to Experiment

Cited by 10 publications

References 163 publications

Interpretation Neutrality for Quantum Theology

Interpretation Neutrality for Quantum Theology

Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics Portrayed as a Human Twins’ Metaphor

Quantum Mechanics: Statistical Balance Prompts Caution in Assessing Conceptual Implications

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