Abstract
The existence of two different ways of change of the state vector of a given quantum system seems strange to many physicists. Why must there be a special cause for change of the state vector, brought about by measurement or wave packet collapse? Isn’t this cause just a normal physical interaction of the system with the apparatus, and if the apparatus consists of quantum particles why can’t it be described by the Schrödinger equation?
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Grib, A.A., Rodrigues, W.A. (1999). How Ψ Collapses. In: Nonlocality in Quantum Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4687-0_3
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