The wave function as matter density: ontological assumptions and experimental consequences

DOI10.1007/S10701-015-9884-7MaRDI QIDQ2516114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Markku Jääskeläinen

Publication date 10 August 2015

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-015-9884-7

zbMATH Keywords

wavefunctionNewtonian gravitybound statesfoundations of quantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

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