Does Decoherence Make Observations Classical?
arXiv:2108.13428
Abstract
The fact that we rarely directly observe much quantum uncertainty is often attributed to decoherence. However, decoherence does not reduce the quantum uncertainty in the full quantum state. Whether or not it reduces the quantum uncertainties in observations depends on the yet-unknown rules for getting observations (and their measures or `probabilities') from the quantum state. These points are illustrated by a simple toy model with a baseball at 100 miles per hour, which has the Planck momentum.
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