Equation 2 · Part 6 · How Fast Can a Horizon Learn Which Path You Took?
fraction
fraction
What this part means
Divide the expression above the line by the one below it.
Its job in the formula
The expression above the fraction bar is divided by the complete expression below it. The denominator must not be zero.
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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
Learn the underlying idea
A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.
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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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