Classicality via hydrodynamics in quantum field theory
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Motivated by ideas from the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics, we examine a simple model of hydrodynamic coarse graining for a scalar field. It consists in averaging the field over spatial regions of size L and constructing the evolution equations for the coarse grained quantities, identifying dissipation and noise.
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