The parts and the whole: collapse theories and systems with identical constituents

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2011.06.002MaRDI QIDQ2436237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Giancarlo Ghirardi

Publication date 21 February 2014

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2011.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

collapse theoriesentangled systemsidentical constituentsmeasurement problempart-whole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Quantum scattering theory (81U99)

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