{"id":80307,"date":"2015-04-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=3b213a420c50acccd583290d8962b37e"},"modified":"2015-04-23T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"internal-environment-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-schrodinger-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=80307","title":{"rendered":"Internal environment: what is it like to be a Schr\u00f6dinger cat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of quantum interference of a composite object with many internal degrees of freedom<br \/>\nis studied, such that the internal degrees play a role of an internal environment. In particular, if<br \/>\nthe internal degrees have a capacity for an irreversible record of which-path information, then the<br \/>\ninternal-environment induced decoherence prevents external experimentalists from observing<br \/>\ninterference. Interference can be observed only if the interfering object is sufficiently isolated<br \/>\nfrom the external environment, so that the object cannot record which-path information.<br \/>\nExtrapolation to a hypothetical interference experiment with a conscious object implies that being a<br \/>\nSchr\u00f6dinger cat would be like being an ordinary cat living in a box without any information about<br \/>\nthe world external to the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of quantum interference of a composite object with many internal degrees of freedom<br \/>\nis studied, such that the internal degrees play a role of an internal environment. In particular, if<br \/>\nthe internal degrees have a capacity for an irrev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}