Decoherence: and the Quantum-To-Classical Transition

Over the course of the past decade, decoherence has become a ubiquitous scientific term popular in all kinds of research, from fundamental theories of quantum physics to applications in nanoengineering. Decoherence has been hailed as the solution to long-standing foundational problems dating back to the beginnings of quantum mechanics. It has been cursed as the key obstacle to next-generation technologies, such as quantum computers (another se- ingly omnipresent field of research). And whil...