Equation 2 · Part 1 · How Fast Can a Horizon Learn Which Path You Took?
Symbol Psi
What this part means
Psi is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
Psi is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The passage around this formula
The labels zero and one denote paths, not energy eigenstates. After the system’s long-range field interacts with the inaccessible degrees of freedom, an idealized final pure state has the form . Tracing out the field multiplies the off-diagonal element of the path density matrix by the conditional-state overlap
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A function assigns an output to each allowed input. The expression f(x) means “apply f to x”.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions ↗
- [10] Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity ↗
- [16] Decoherence of Black Hole Superpositions by Hawking Radiation ↗
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