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Suppression of interference in a subsystem’s reduced state through entanglement with uncontrolled environmental degrees of freedom; decoherence does not by itself select a unique measurement outcome.
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Tracing over environmental degrees of freedom gives the reduced state in which decoherence is quantified.
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System–environment entanglement transfers phase coherence into nonlocal correlations, suppressing interference in the reduced subsystem state.
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The observed decay of interference and cat-state coherence followed environment-coupling predictions.
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Controlled thermal and collisional coupling quantitatively suppresses molecular interference.
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