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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N

Wave function collapse: An unnecessary condition for the dynamical description of the Zeno and partial Zeno effect

Gastón A. Crespo, Hilda A. Cerdeira, Araceli N. Proto

Published Sep 1, 1992• 0 citations
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