Looking for good introduction to coherence/decoherence

[Swankie]

Hi all, does anyone here have a good internet source that explains coherence and decoherence in layman's terms? My intro modern physics class left off at the beginning of schrodingers wave function due to time constraints and I am trying to teach myself a bit of the stuff we missed.

Thanks =)

p.s. on an unrelated note, how do you get to show your forum avatar? Saw the option to display it but do not see anywhere to upload it.

 

[IRobot]

I'd say the wikipedia page on decoherence should work this out for you. If not, decoherence is a technical subject, if you want to grasp it you need a couple of equations (not that sophisticated) and I would advise you http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306072/ and http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312059 Have fun reading that, I enjoyed learning the subject ;)

 

[Andy Resnick]

How about this:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0306/0306072.pdf