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The Meaning of Decoherence

H. D. Zeh

Published 1999-05-04, updated 1999-06-29Version 2

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'.

Comments: 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
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