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What does decoherence mean?

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Noun
  1. (physics) The process by which a quantum system interacts with its environment in such a way that no interference between states of the system can be observed.
  2. (engineering, dated) The normal condition of sensitiveness in a coherer.
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Wojciech Zurek, of America's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, discussed his research group's efforts to investigate decoherence.
We examine with a particular attention the quantumclassical limit and decoherence.
When decoherence is deliberately provoked, the process is known as measurement.
The decoherence is effected by giving the stool a tilt by means of an electromagnet.
The third method of causing the decoherence of the filings is that due to T. Tommasina.
Such a state, which would undergo a fast decoherence process, leads to new tests of quantum non-locality and relaxation.

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