By Miranda Marquit
“The physics community is mostly divided into two groups,” Johannes Kofler tells PhysOrg.com.
“One group believes that quantum theory is underlying the classical
world, and that classical physics comes from the quantum. The other
group thinks that quantum physics has to be altered. It forbids that
quantum mechanics works on a macro level in the classical world by
postulating additional laws.”
Kofler belongs to the former group. He and
Časlav Brukner, both from the University of Vienna and from the
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences, have developed a novel theoretical
approach to understanding the transition from quantum to classical
physics.
Their work has been published in Physical Review Letters with the title, “Classical World Arising out of Quantum Physics under the Restriction of Coarse-Grained Measurements.”...
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