Gravitational self-localization in quantum measurement

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Geszti, Tamás ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POISSON EQUATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ENTANGLED DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL SELF-INTERACTION POTENTIAL; MACROSCOPIC DYNAMICS; QUANTUM MEASUREMENT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 2542484778     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.032110     Document Type: Article

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