Quantum mechanics is an extremely successful theory that agrees with every experimental
test. However, the principle of linear superposition, a central tenet of the theory, apparently …

Environment-induced decoherence and superselection have been a subject of intensive
research over the past two decades, yet their implications for the foundational problems of …

Over the course of the past decade, decoherence has become a ubiquitous scienti? c term
popular in all kinds of research, from fundamental theories of quantum physics to …

When we were preparing the first edition of this book, the concept of de coherence was
known only to a minority of physicists. In the meantime, a wealth of contributions has …

The quantum-mechanical uncertainty in the position of a particle or the time of its emission is
shown to produce observable effects that are inconsistent with any local hidden-variable …

A linear equation of motion for the state vector is presented, in which an anti-Hermitian
Hamiltonian that fluctuates randomly is added to the usual Hamiltonian of the Schrödinger …

A model of a quantum system interacting with its environment is proposed in which the
system is represented by a state vector that satisfies a stochastic differential equation …

This book is both apparently ambitious and modest in its aims. Ambitious, as it attempts to
achieve something that has been declared impossible by some of the greatest physicists …

Four previous editions of this book were published in 1989, 1992, 1999, and 2001. They
were preceded by a German version (Zeh 1984) that was based on lectures I had given at …

The 1927 Solvay conference was perhaps the most important in the history of quantum
theory. Contrary to popular belief, questions of interpretation were not settled at this …