Measurements and Decoherence

Abstract

A pedagogical and reasonably self-contained introduction to the measurement problems in quantum mechanics and their partial solution by environment-induced decoherence (plus some other important aspects of dcoherence) is given. The point that decoherence does not solve the measurement problems completely is clearly brought out.The relevance of interpretation of quantum mechanics in this context is briefly discussed.

31 pages; Lectures at the nineth frontiers meeting at the Centre for Learning at Varadanahalli (near Bangalore), Jan 3-7, 2005

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• Decoherence, the measurement problem, and interpretations of quantum mechanics

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