The best of many worlds, or, is quantum decoherence the manifestation of a disposition?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.02.001zbMath1414.81140OpenAlexW2919355716MaRDI QIDQ2420736

Florian J. Boge

Publication date: 6 June 2019

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/15798/1/DecDispPre.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

quantum decoherencemany worldscontinuous manifestationmutual manifestationpropensity interpretation of quantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Physics (00A79) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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