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We study the decoherence process of a four spin-1/2 antiferromagnet that is coupled to an environment of spin-1/2 particles. The preferred basis of the antiferromagnet is discussed in two limiting cases and we identify two $it{exact}$ pointer states. Decoherence near the two limits is examined whereby entropy is used to quantify the $it{robustness}$ of states against environmental coupling. We find that close to the quantum measurement limit, the self-Hamiltonian of the system of interest can become dynamically relevant on macroscopic timescales. We illustrate this point by explicitly constructing a state that is more robust than (generic) states diagonal in the system-environment interaction Hamiltonian.
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 un
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