{
  "id": "quant-ph/9905004",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1999-05-04T14:27:20.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-06-29T13:27:22.000Z",
  "title": "The Meaning of Decoherence",
  "authors": [
    "H. D. Zeh"
  ],
  "comment": "25 pages, Latex, needs Springer macro cl2emult. Version to be published. An error in the comments regarding the relation between Bloch vectors and Wigner functions has been eliminated (see Footnote 3)",
  "journal": "Lect.Notes Phys. 538 (2000) 19-42",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat",
    "math-ph",
    "math.MP",
    "physics.atom-ph",
    "physics.chem-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "The conceptual and dynamical aspects of decoherence are analyzed, while their consequences are discussed for several fundamental applications. This mechanism, which is based on a universal Schr\\\"odinger equation, is furthermore compared with the phenomenological description of open systems in terms of `quantum dynamical maps'.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1999-06-29T13:27:22.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "decoherence",
      "fundamental applications",
      "open systems",
      "quantum dynamical maps",
      "consequences"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 25,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 499319
    }
  }
}