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The decoherence criterion

Eleonora Alfinito, Rosario G. Viglione, Giuseppe Vitiello

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0007020

Abstract

The decoherence mechanism signals the limits beyond which the system dynamics approaches the classical behavior. We show that in some cases decoherence may also signal the limits beyond which the system dynamics has to be described by quantum field theory, rather than by quantum mechanics.

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