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Two models for the theory of decoherence

The theory of decoherence is arguably among the greatest advances in fundamental physics of the past forty years

We 20.03.

Since the pioneering papers, a wide variety of models have been designed to understand decoherence in different specific contexts, for some given Hamiltonians. In this talk, we would like to embrace a more general point of view, and try to answer the two following questions as universally as possible, i.e. without specifying any Hamiltonian:

1. What is the typical size of an environment needed to entail proper decoherence on a system?

2. Why is the universe not frozen by the quantum Zeno effect?

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Speaker: Antoine Soulas (Institute of Research in Mathematics of Rennes (IRMAR), University of Rennes, France)