Probabilities and quantum reality: Are there correlata?

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1423-1459

  Griffiths, Robert B ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ithaca interpretation; Quantum histories; Quantum probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141871996     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026092212820     Document Type: Review

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