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What Does Quantum Theory Tell Us? A Matter-Wave Approach

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It is my great pleasure and honor to present here a review of our recent experimental achievements investigating foundations of quantum mechanics with neutrons. We are doing quantum-optical experiments with neutrons.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), most recently by the project P25795-N20. The author would like to thank all colleagues who are involved in realizing experiments described here.

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Hasegawa, Y. (2017). What Does Quantum Theory Tell Us? A Matter-Wave Approach. In: Bertlmann, R., Zeilinger, A. (eds) Quantum [Un]Speakables II. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38987-5_24

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