1. The Quantum and the Environment
... changes depending on the environment surrounding it. Changing the environment also changes the rate at which the coffee's state changes, and minimizing the interaction between the coffee and the environment allows it to change its state much more slowly, giving us more time to enjoy that hot cup of coffee. While the physical system described above may seem familiar to you, we can ... to describe open quantum systems. In brief, an open quantum system is a quantum system that interacts with its environment, with this interaction between the system and the environment driving the time evol...
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