Experimental motivation and empirical consistency in minimal no-collapse quantum mechanics

Annals of Physics

Volumn 321, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-149

  Schlosshauer, Maximilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bose Einstein condensation; Decoherence; Entanglement; Measurement problem; Molecular diffraction; Neuronal decoherence; No collapse quantum mechanics; Objectification of observables; Physical collapse theories; Quantum probabilities; Quantum to classical transition; SQUIDs; Superposition principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444437191     PISSN: 00034916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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