The Role of Decoherence in the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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The Copenhagen interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics formulated mainly by Niels Bohr and also Werner Heisenberg while collaborating in Copenhagen. According to a poll in 1997, the Copenhagen interpretation is the most widely-accepted interpretation of quantum mechanics [1] and it was the first general attempt to understand the world of atoms. Since Copenhagen Interpretation was developed by a number of scientists and philosophers in different times there is not very clear statement of the Copenhagen Interpretation. In fact Bohr and Heisenberg never completely agreed on the details of the interpretation of quantum mechanic, and none of them ever used the term “the Copenhagen interpretation” as a joint name for their ideas [2] .However it is possible to summarize some of the main principles of this interpretation based mainly on Bohr’s statements. Nowadays, the Copenhagen interpretation is mainly famous for indeterminism, Bohr's correspondence principle as well as his complementarity interpretation and Born's probability rule [2]. It is useful to mention a statement by E.T. Jaynes about the role of Bohr in quantum mechanic [3]:
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