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Definition of decoherence
Phys. Rev. D 47, 5430 – Published 15 June, 1993
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.47.5430
Abstract
We examine the relationship between the decoherence of quantum-mechanical histories of a closed system (as discussed by Gell-Mann and Hartle) and environmentally induced diagonalization of the density operator for an open system. We study a definition of decoherence which incorporates both of these ideas, and show that it leads to a consistent probabilistic interpretation of the reduced density operator.
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