1. The Quantum and the Environment
... An open quantum system is much more realistic than a closed quantum system, which is isolated from the environment, because it is almost impossible to completely isolate a quantum system from its surrounding environment. Furthermore, open quantum systems are of paramount importance in quantum information, quantum computing, and ... system is located at a given point at a given instant of time, there is a 1 in N chance that the system will move in one of N possible directions. In particular, if the system can only move on a line, then if it is located at a given point x at a given instan...
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