to decohere

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• Therefore, if quantum computations are to be performed in the laboratory, one must find or build systems that decohere slowly compared to the time required to do the computation.

  Academic text (1995)

• In quantum mechanics, particles can decohere due to interactions with their environment, losing their quantum properties.

• Even so, they decohere within tenths of microseconds.

  Sabine Hossenfelder

• The problem is that the electron states of that island quickly decohere as the microscopic degrees of freedom strongly interact with the environment.

  Academic text (2005)

• It's it's both a bastardization of logic and a obviously decohering force at the moment in society.

• It's it's both a bastardization of logic and a obviously decohering force at the moment in society.

• Well, even in intergalactic space, the CMB causes a dust particle to decohere to classicality in far less than a microsecond.

  Blog text (29)

• After separation, the magnetic field of the dots' nuclear spins causes the separated singlet S to decohere, or dephase, toward the triplet T0 in time tD.

  Academic text (2006)

• Without the Sun, time becomes disorganized, becoming a seamless "and now"; without the Sun, subjectivity itself begins uncannily to decohere in a way that cannot quite be retrieved through Eliotic "impersonality." Dylan Trigg

  Academic text (2016)

• I can't go into the details, but Gell-Mann and Hartle, in a series of beautiful papers, have shown that a similar sort of interpretation of mathematical quantities in QM in terms of probabilities of histories is valid when "the histories decohere."

  Blog text (29)

Synonyms

D

to disintegrate

vsto decohere

35 5.8

Fall apart into smaller pieces or stop working together

loses internal order or coherence within a technical system

U

to uncouple

vsto decohere

5 5.3

To disconnect two things that are joined, often machine parts

loses cohesion and internal order instead of being physically separated

D

to decouple

vsto decohere

• Specialized

1 6.8

Reduce the connection so one part does not affect another

loses unity or ordering inside a system rather than link removal

D

to demerge

vsto decohere

• Jargon

1 8.0

To separate a company into independent businesses

experiences a loss of internal unity or order rather than formal split

Antonyms

C

to cohere

3 6.2

To stick together to form one unit, like parts of a machine or ideas in a plan

How Coherent

to detune

• Specialized

7.4

to dephase

• Specialized

1 9.9

to desynchronize

• Specialized

8.6

to decohere

• Specialized

1 9.6

Surface Forms

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