Is a system's wave function in one-to-one correspondence with its elements of reality?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Colbeck, Roger ^a   Renner, Renato ^b  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLE SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL THEORY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

WAVE FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84859795651     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.150402     Document Type: Article

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