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Published May 2014 | Published + Submitted
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Adaptive coarse graining, environment, strong decoherence, and quasiclassical realms

Abstract

Three ideas are introduced that when brought together characterize the realistic quasiclassical realms of our quantum universe as particular kinds of sets of alternative coarse-grained histories defined by quasiclassical variables: (i) branch-dependent adaptive coarse grainings that can be close to maximally refined and can simplify calculation, (ii) narrative coarse grainings that describe how features of the universe change over time and allow the construction of an environment, and (iii) a notion of strong decoherence that characterizes realistic mechanisms of decoherence.

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©2014 American Physical Society. (Received 14 January 2014; published 21 May 2014) We thank the Aspen Center for Physics for hospitality over several summers while this work was in progress. J.B.H. thanks the Santa Fe Institute for supporting many visits there. The work of J.B.H. was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. PHY05-55669, No. PHY08-55415, and No. PHY12-05500. The work of M.G.-M. was supported by the COUQ Foundation, by Insight Venture Management, and by the KITP in Santa Barbara. The generous help provided by these organizations is gratefully acknowledged.

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