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تسجيل مستخدم جديدObjective Reality of Pointer States
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Tabish Qureshi
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It is shown that the nature of quantum states that emerge from decoherence is such that one can {em measure} the expectation value of any observable of the system in a single measurement. This can be done even when such pointer states are a priori unknown. The possibility of measuring the expectation value of any observable, without any prior knowledge of the state, points to the objective existence of such states.
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