| Wojciech Zurek, of America's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, discussed his research group's efforts to investigate decoherence. |
| It is extremely sensitive to decoherence, which transforms it quite rapidly into a mere statistical mixture. |
| When decoherence is deliberately provoked, the process is known as measurement. |
| The decoherence time decreases when the separation between the two field components increases. |
| They seem to be finding that the process of decoherence is more gradual, quantifiable and open to investigation than was previously suspected. |
| Further explorations of the decoherence process will require the preparation of much larger cats. |
