{ "id": "quant-ph/0104104", "version": "v2", "published": "2001-04-20T11:41:37.000Z", "updated": "2002-02-15T10:01:42.000Z", "title": "A Continuous Transition Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics (I)", "authors": [ "Partha Ghose" ], "comment": "Revised version, to appear in Found. of Phys", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "In spite of its popularity, it has not been possible to vindicate the conventional wisdom that classical mechanics is a limiting case of quantum mechanics. The purpose of the present paper is to offer an alternative formulation of classical mechanics which provides a continuous transition to quantum mechanics via environment-induced decoherence.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2002-02-15T10:01:42.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "classical mechanics", "continuous transition", "quantum mechanics", "conventional wisdom", "popularity" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }