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"Decoherence does not generate actual wave function collapse. It only provides an explanation for the appearance of wavefunction collapse. The quantum nature of the system is simply "leaked" into the environment"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
I have taken a full year of quantum, but this puzzles me. So decoherence does not collapse the wavefunction? but somehow the information leaks to teh enviornment? and it is conserved?
if this is so, then this would be a reversible process, no?
further i though decoherence and wv func collapse are eqivalent?
any thoughts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
I have taken a full year of quantum, but this puzzles me. So decoherence does not collapse the wavefunction? but somehow the information leaks to teh enviornment? and it is conserved?
if this is so, then this would be a reversible process, no?
further i though decoherence and wv func collapse are eqivalent?
any thoughts?