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Quantum State Effusion

Quantum Physics 2016-09-22 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

I give a scientific perspective, with a personal emphasis, on the seminal 1992 paper, "The quantum-state diffusion model applied to open systems", by Gisin and Percival.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1609.06572,
  title  = {Quantum State Effusion},
  author = {Howard M. Wiseman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06572},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Viewpoint on a famous paper commissioned by J Phys. A for celebrating its 50th anniversary. There are slight differences from the published version

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