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Quantum Darwinism and Envariance
W. H. Zurek
Effective classicality of a property of a quantum system can be defined using redundancy of its record in the environment. This allows quantum physics to approximate the situation…
Decoherence and the transition from quantum to classical -- REVISITED
Wojciech H. Zurek
The environment surrounding a quantum system can, in effect, monitor some of the systems observables. As a result, the eigenstates of these observables continuously decohere and ca…
Reduction of the Wavepacket: How Long Does it Take?
Wojciech H. Zurek
We show that the ``reduction of the wavepacket'' caused by the interaction with the environment occurs on a timescale which is typically many orders of magnitude shorter than the r…
Maxwell's Demon, Szilard's Engine and Quantum Measurements
Wojciech Hubert Zurek
We propose and analyze a quantum version of Szilard's ``one-molecule engine.'' In particular, we recover, in the quantum context, Szilard's conclusion concerning the free energy ``…