Probably within the last year, I came across a recent textbook or textbook-style presentation of quantum mechanics, at the freshman level, that introduced the subject from scratch using decoherence. I think the text was online and not paywalled. Now I can't remember where I found it, and I can't seem to find it by googling. Can anyone point me to it?
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3$\begingroup$ ::blinks:: Really? I'd like to see that, too. $\endgroup$– dmckee --- ex-moderator kittenDec 4, 2017 at 2:51
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$\begingroup$ It's possible that I had in mind this book by Binney, www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JamesBinney/QBhome.htm , although it's more of an upper-division text. $\endgroup$– user4552Dec 5, 2017 at 1:24
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I finally remembered what book I'd had in mind. It's Griffiths, Consistent Quantum Theory, which is available in print and for free online. Although it does have a chapter on decoherence at the end of the book, my memory was wrong. It focuses on the consistent histories approach, not decoherence.