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Decoherence

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disaggregationnounA division or breaking up into constituent parts, particularly the analytic disassembly of categories which have been aggregated or lumped together.
disintegrationnounA process by which anything disintegrates.
breakupnounThe termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
break-upnounAlternative spelling of breakup. [The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.]
breakdownnoun(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
decaynoun(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
predecoherencenoun(physics) A quantum state that leads to decoherence
dephasingnoun(quantum mechanics, medical imaging) A loss of the synchronization or coherence caused by a perturbation, upon which the system returns to its state before perturbation.
quantum indeterminacynoun(quantum mechanics) The indeterminacy associated with being in a mixed quantum state.
supercoherencenoun(physics) A form of coherence (between quantum states) postulated by supersymmetry
disexcitationnoun(physics) The change in state of an excited state as it loses a quantum of energy.
wavefunction collapsenoun(quantum mechanics) The phenomenon in which a wavefunction — initially in a superposition of several different possible eigenstates — appears to reduce to a single one of those states after interaction with an observer: the reduction of the physical possibilities into a single possibility as seen by an observer.
deexcitationnoun(physics) The change in state as an excited state releases a quantum of energy.
de-excitationnoun(physics) Alternative form of deexcitation. [(physics) The change in state as an excited state releases a quantum of energy.]
nondemolitionnoun(quantum mechanics) The indirect measurement of a quantum system in a way that preserves indeterminacy.
decouplingnounThe act or process by which something is decoupled.
heisenberg cutnoun(quantum mechanics, philosophy of physics) A conceptualised division separating the quantum system being observed from the classical system that comprises the observer's information, knowledge and conscious awareness.
quantum statenoun(quantum mechanics) Any of the possible states of a quantum mechanical system.
quantum electronicsnoun(quantum mechanics) The field concerned with the interaction of radiation and matter, and on the effects of quantum mechanics on the behaviour of electrons.
measurement problemnoun(quantum mechanics) The unresolved problem of what causes a wavefunction to collapse into an eigenstate, or whether wavefunctions collapse at all.

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