Standard quantum mechanics with environment induced decoherence and wavefunction collapse: Possibility of an empirical discrimination using neutron interferometry

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 217, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 209-214

  Home, Dipankar ^a   Bose, Sougato ^b  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY;

DYNAMICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT-INDUCED DECOHERENCE; NEUTRON INTERFEROMETRY; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 5344253470     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00333-7     Document Type: Article

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