QUASI-CLASSICAL DYNAMICS IN A CLOSED QUANTUM SYSTEM

Authors
Citation
A. Kent, QUASI-CLASSICAL DYNAMICS IN A CLOSED QUANTUM SYSTEM, Physical review. A, 54(6), 1996, pp. 4670-4675
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
10502947
Volume
54
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
4670 - 4675
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(1996)54:6<4670:QDIACQ>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We consider Gell-Mann and Hartle's consistent histories formulation of quantum cosmology in the interpretation in which one history, chosen randomly according to the decoherence functional probabilities, is rea lized from each consistent set. We show that in this interpretation, i f one assumes that an observed quasiclassical structure will continue to be quasiclassical, one cannot infer that it will obey the predictio ns of classical or Copenhagen quantum mechanics.