Oleg Lychkovskiy
Published 2012-10-15, updated 2013-01-15Version 2
Choosing a specific way of dividing a closed system into parts is a starting point for the decoherence program and for the quantum thermalization program. It is shown that one can always chose such way of partitioning that decoherence-assisted classicality does not emerge and thermalization does not occur. Implications of this result are discussed.
Comments: Presented at DICE-2012 workshop under title "Resolution into subsystems, decoherence and thermalization". v2: Title changed, presentation improved, discussion extended, references added. Accepted to Phys. Rev. A
Journal: Phys. Rev. A 87, 022112 (2013)
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