Problems and aspects of energy-driven wave-function collapse models

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Pearle, Philip ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; HAMILTONIANS; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAPPHIRE; VECTORS;

EIGENSTATES; ENERGY SPECTRA; QUANTUM STATES; WAVE-FUNCTION COLLAPSE MODELS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 2942538070     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.042106     Document Type: Article

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