Chapter 5: Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence

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Section plan:

Shows why real quantum systems are difficult to control. Covers relaxation, dephasing, density matrices, master-equation intuition, environmental coupling, error sources, and why suppressing or exploiting decoherence is a central challenge.