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The puzzling entanglement of Schrödinger's wave function

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A brief review of the conceptual difficulties met by the quantum formalism is presented. The main attempts to overcome these difficulties are considered and their limitations are pointed out. A recent proposal based on the assumption of the occurrence of a specific type of wave function collapse is discussed and its consequences for the above-mentioned problems are analyzed.

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Ghirardi, G.C., Rimini, A. & Weber, T. The puzzling entanglement of Schrödinger's wave function. Found Phys 18, 1–27 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01882871

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