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The problem of measurement in quantum mechanics has caused debates which started immediately after the theory was founded and which are still going on. The book Quantum Theory and Measurement, edited by J.A. Wheeler and W.H. Zurek, Princeton University Press, Princeton (1983), contains the essential papers on this subject published before 1982. In particular, an English translation of the paper in which Schrödinger discussed the fate of a cat in front of a diabolical device is reproduced in this book. See also S. Goldstein, “Quantum theory without observers”, Phys. Today, March 1998, p. 42.
The book entitled The Many-World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, by B.S. DeWitt and N. Graham, eds., Princeton University Press, Princeton (1973) presents several papers centered on this particular theory.
The possible role of human consciousness in wave packet reduction was advocated in particular by E.P. Wigner, Symmetries and Reflection, Indiana University Press, Bloomington (1967).
For recent discussions of the decoherence approach, or rather of the decoherence approaches since different conceptions of the notion of reality emerge among different authors, see for instance W.H. Zurek, Phys. Today 44, 36 (1991); M. Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar, Little, Brown, London (1994); S. Haroche, “Entanglement, decoherence, and the quantum/classical boundary”, Phys. Today, July 1998, p. 36; R. Omnès, Understanding Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press, Princeton (1999); F. Laloë, “ Do we really understand quantum mechanics?”, Am. J. Phys. 69, 655 (2001).
Recent experimental results on quantum superposition of mesoscopic states (“Schrödinger kittens”) are presented in M. Brune et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4887 (1996). See also P. Yam, “Bringing Schrödinger cat to life”, Sci. Am., June 1997, p. 104; P. Kwiat, H. Weinfurter and A. Zeilinger, “Quantum seeing in the dark”, Sci. Am., November 1996, p. 52.
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