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arxiv: 1008.0283 · v4 · pith:ICNW23SBnew · submitted 2010-08-02 · 🪐 quant-ph

Classical system boundaries cannot be determined within quantum Darwinism

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Multiple observers who interact with environmental encodings of the states of a macroscopic quantum system S as required by quantum Darwinism cannot demonstrate that they are jointly observing S without a joint a priori assumption of a classical boundary separating S from its environment E. Quantum Darwinism cannot, therefore, be regarded as providing a purely quantum-mechanical explanation of the "emergence" of classicality.

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