Categorization, Representations, and the Dynamics of System-Environment Interaction: a case study in autonomous systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-Ling Zou ◽  
Xiang-Dong Chen ◽  
Xiao Xiong ◽  
Fang-Wen Sun ◽  
Xu-Bo Zou ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Guilherme Eduardo Leite ◽  
Norian Marranghello ◽  
Aledir Silveira Pereira

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 023035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Rosenbach ◽  
Javier Cerrillo ◽  
Susana F Huelga ◽  
Jianshu Cao ◽  
Martin B Plenio

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Tyulenev

The article considers the applicability of Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory to the study of translation. The focus of this paper is the intersystemic aspect of translation’s social involvements. Translation is considered as a social subsystem acting as a boundary phenomenon (opening/closing the system) and as a mechanism of the system/environment throughput. The theory of social-systemic functioning of translation is exemplified by a case study of the translation history of eighteenth-century Russia.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hylke Donker ◽  
Hans De Raedt ◽  
Mikhail Katsnelson

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 exact pointer states. Decoherence near the two limits is examined whereby entropy is used to quantify the 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.


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