Erich Joos
Published 1999-08-02Version 1
In this contribution I give a brief introduction to the essential concepts and mechanisms of decoherence by the environment. The emphasis will be not so much on technical details but rather on conceptual issues and the impact on the interpretation problem of quantum theory.
Comments: Latex, 16 pages. To be published in the proceedings of the Bielefeld conference on ``Decoherence: Theoretical, Experimental, and Conceptual Problems", edited by P. Blanchard, D. Giulini, E. Joos, C. Kiefer, and I.-O. Stamatescu (Springer 1999)
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