 Quantum decoherence (source code)

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= Quantum decoherence
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= Environmental decoherence
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= Decoherence
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Quantum decoherence is the suppression of observable phase coherence when a system becomes entangled with unobserved environmental degrees of freedom. In a preferred basis, tracing out the environment damps off-diagonal entries of the system's <reduced density matrix> while leaving the corresponding populations unchanged.

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