The University of Queensland

Decoherence, Time-Asymmetry and the Bohmian View on the Quantum World (ARC Discovery Project administered by the University of Sydney) (2008–2013)

Abstract:

The project will close a major gap in current understanding of quantum decoherence, a process of fundamental importance in accounting for the nature of the quantum world and in determining practical limitations on quantum technology. Drawing on recent progress in the understanding of time-asymmetry elsewhere in philosophy and physics, the project will solve the riddle of the time-asymmetry of decoherence. The results will clarify the interpretation of quantum theory, the nature of the difference between past and future, and the theoretical and practical implications of decoherence itself.

Grant type:

University of Sydney

Researchers:

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  Professor Gerard Milburn

  Professorial Research Fellow
  

  School of Mathematics and Physics

  Faculty of Science

Funded by:

The University of Sydney