Collapse of the state vector

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Weinberg, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORN RULE; FINAL STATE; GENERAL CLASS; STATE VECTOR; STOCHASTIC EVOLUTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84862647527     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.062116     Document Type: Article

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