A Continuous Transition Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics (I)
arXiv:quant-ph/0104104
Abstract
In spite of its popularity, it has not been possible to vindicate the conventional wisdom that classical mechanics is a limiting case of quantum mechanics. The purpose of the present paper is to offer an alternative formulation of classical mechanics which provides a continuous transition to quantum mechanics via environment-induced decoherence.
Revised version, to appear in Found. of Phys