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Line 81: ===Superselection rules=== Superselection rules, in short, are ~~postulated rules that~~ postulated rules forbidding the preparation of quantum states that exhibit coherence between eigenstates of certain observables. It was originally introduced to impose additional restriction to quantum theory beyond those of [[selection rules]]. As an example, superselection rules for electric charges disallow the preparation of a coherent superposition of different charge eigenstates. As it turns out, the lack of a reference frame is mathematically equivalent to superselection rules. This is a powerful statement because superselection rules have long been thought to have axiomatic nature, and now its fundamental stand and even its necessity are questioned. Nevertheless, it has been shown that it is, in principle, always possible though not always easy to lift all superselection rules on a quantum system.

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