{ "id": "1210.4124", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-10-15T17:51:30.000Z", "updated": "2013-01-15T18:50:24.000Z", "title": "Dependence of decoherence-assisted classicality on the ways a system is partitioned into subsystems", "authors": [ "Oleg Lychkovskiy" ], "comment": "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)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.87.022112", "categories": [ "quant-ph", "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-01-15T18:50:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "03.65.Yz", "03.65.Ta", "05.30.-d" ], "keywords": [ "decoherence-assisted classicality", "dependence", "subsystems", "quantum thermalization program", "specific way" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review A", "year": 2013, "month": "Feb", "volume": 87, "number": 2, "pages": "022112" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013PhRvA..87b2112L" } } }