On spontaneous wave function collapse and quantum field theory

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 462, Issue 2070, 2006, Pages 1897-1908

  Tumulka, Roderich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ghirardi Rimini Weber model; Identical particles; Quantum field theory without observers; Second quantization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845548355     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2005.1636     Document Type: Article

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