Emergence of consensus about objective classical reality in a quantum universe

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Abstract

We study the emergence of classicality within a quantum universe through the framework of Quantum Darwinism. In particular, we propose a new information-theoretic measure of consensus, and show that it is a well-defined measure of agreement between observers in branching states of arbitrary dimension. This result represents an information-theoretic quantitative approach to the emergence of objective classical reality in our universe.

* LA-UR-23-32019Los Alamos LARD programJohn Templeton Foundation under Grant No. 62422

Presenters

  • Akram Touil

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Authors

  • Akram Touil

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  • Bin Yan

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Davide Girolami

    Politecnico di Torino

  • Sebastian Deffner

    University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  • Wojciech H Zurek

    Los Alamos Natl Lab