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The Quantum Measurement Problem: State of Play

Quantum Physics 2007-12-04 v1

Abstract

This is a preliminary version of an article to appear in the forthcoming Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics. I don't advocate any particular approach to the measurement problem (not here, at any rate!) but I do focus on the importance of decoherence theory to modern attempts to solve the measurement problem, and I am fairly sharply critical of some aspects of the "traditional" formulation.

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@article{arxiv.0712.0149,
  title  = {The Quantum Measurement Problem: State of Play},
  author = {David Wallace},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0149},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 85 pages. Forthcoming in Rickles (ed.), The Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics

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