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    interpretations of quantum mechanics, wave function collapse, also called reduction of the state vector, occurs when a wave function—initially in a superposition...
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  • Model synthesis (also wave function collapse or 'wfc') is a family of constraint-solving algorithms commonly used in procedural generation, especially...
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  • systems consisting of many particles, the collapse becomes stronger than the quantum dynamics. Then their wave function is always well-localized in space, so...
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    issues such as wave function collapse, and the paradox of Schrödinger's cat by being inherently nonlocal. The de Broglie–Bohm pilot wave theory is one...
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    wave function (or wavefunction) is a mathematical description of the quantum state of an isolated quantum system. The most common symbols for a wave function...
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    universal wavefunction is objectively real, and that there is no wave function collapse. This implies that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements...
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  • certain value, and that this value is related to the Planck constant. Wave function collapse means that a measurement has forced or converted a quantum (probabilistic...
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  • introduced as a possible solution to the measurement problem, where the wave function collapse is related to gravity. The model was first suggested by Lajos Diósi...
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  • large. Later on it was proposed as a model to explain the quantum wave function collapse by Lajos Diósi and Roger Penrose, from whom the name "Schrödinger–Newton...
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    Romantic (1998) We are DMX (1999) The Collapse of the Wave Function LP (2004) Many Worlds (The Collapse Of The Wave Function Volume 4) (2005) The Transactional...
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  • separates the wave packets in configuration space, which is where apparent wave function collapse comes from, even though there is no actual collapse. A fourth...
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  • argued that the mathematics of quantum mechanics allows the collapse of the wave function to be placed at any position in the causal chain from the measurement...
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  • stochastic wave packet reduction postulate. The orthodox interpretation, or Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, posits a wave function collapse every...
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    possibility of the collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics. Decoherence does not generate actual wave-function collapse. It only provides a...
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    mechanics have been formulated that do away with the concept of "wave function collapse" (see, for example, the many-worlds interpretation). The basic idea...
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  • magnitude of the particle's wave function at that point. The concept of wave function collapse postulates that the wave function of a system can change suddenly...
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  • mechanics, which requires a wave function collapse. Interpretations of quantum mechanics that do not recognise wave function collapse (such as De Broglie–Bohm...
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  • cannot explain wave function collapse, as all classical alternatives are still present in the mixed state, and wave function collapse selects only one...
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    {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2}}} . What makes this undesirable is that wave-function collapse occurs before the program terminates, and thus may not yield the...
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    computable, and thus algorithmic. However, Penrose determined that wave function collapse was a prime candidate for a non-computable process. In quantum mechanics...
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    cosmic rays, and subatomic particles. He introduced the concept of a wave function collapse. He was also instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear...
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  • something to do with the workings of the mind. He proposed that the wave function collapses due to its interaction with consciousness. Freeman Dyson argued...
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    problem: What constitutes a "measurement" that apparently causes the wave function to collapse into a definite state? More unsolved problems in physics Schrödinger...
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    a particle's properties results in an apparent and irreversible wave function collapse of that particle and changes the original quantum state. With entangled...
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  • out as a misconception rooted in a poor understanding of the quantum wave function ψ and the quantum measurement process. An electron is detected upon...
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    function. A classical wave at any point can be positive or negative; the quantum probability function is non-negative. Any two different real waves in...
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  • Schrödinger equation is a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic quantum-mechanical system.: 1–2  Its discovery...
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  • the collapse of the wave function as resulting from a time-symmetric transaction between a possibility wave from the source to the receiver (the wave function)...
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    Vibrations in this field propagate and are governed by the appropriate wave equation for the particular field in question. The second quantization of...
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    the hypothesis, advanced by Louis de Broglie in 1924, of wave-particle duality, and also the wave mechanics approach of the Schrödinger equation. It was...
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