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arXiv:0808.1582

On the absence of a measurement problem in quantum computer science

N. David Mermin

Published Aug 11, 2008• 1 citation
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Abstract

I comment on GianCarlo Ghirardi's criticism of my claim that quantum computation has no measurement problem.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.0808.1582

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