BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68322da3e161a DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160711T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160711T143000 URL:/institute-for-quantum-computing/events/colloquium- jess-riedel SUMMARY:Colloquium: Jess Riedel CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nWHERE ARE THE BRANCHES IN A MANY-BODY WAVEFUNCTION? \n\nJESS RIEDEL\, PERIMETER INSTITUTE\n\nWhen the wavefunction of a macros copic system (such as the universe)\nunitarily evolves from a low-entropy initial state\, we expect that it\ndevelops quasiclassical \"branches\"\, i.e.\, a decomposition into\northogonal components each taking well-define d\, distinct values for\nmacroscopic observables. Is this decomposition un ique? Can the number\nof branches decrease in time?\n DTSTAMP:20250524T203547Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR