Balancing momentum jumps with negative quantum effects offers an exact emergence of classicality, unlike previous approximations requiring timescale restrictions or vanishing Planck’s constants. This work establishes concrete conditions, an inequality relating environmental ‘kicks’ to potential shape, under which strictly classical behaviour arises from quantum mechanics. Demonstrating this alternative notion opens new avenues for testing fundamental limits on heating rates using levitated nanoparticles.
Researchers Bound Environmental Kicks, Linking Them to Classicality
Balancing momentum jumps with negative quantum effects offers an exact emergence of classicality, unlike previous approximations requiring timescale restrictions or vanishing Planck’s constants. This work establishes concrete conditions, an inequality relating environmental ‘kicks’ to potential shape, under which strictly classical behaviour arises from quantum mechanics. Demonstrating this alternative notion opens new avenues for testing fundamental limits on heating rates using levitated na...