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arXiv:quant-ph/9509020 · Physical Review Letters

Comment on “Reduced System Dynamics from theN-Body Schrödinger Equation”

Lajos Diósi

Published Apr 22, 1996• 1 citation
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Abstract

We argue that the "reduced wave function", proposed recently [Phys.Rev.Lett. {\bf 75}, 2255 (1995)], contains conditional and restricted information on the reduced system. The concept of "reduced wave function" can thus not represent a relevant alternative to the common reduced dynamics methods.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.76.3232

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