Collapse Models

Abstract

This is a review of formalisms and models (nonrelativistic and relativistic) which modify Schrodinger's equation so that it describes wavefunction collapse as a dynamical physical process.

40 pages, to be published in "Open Systems and Measurement in Relativistic Quantum Theory," F. Petruccione and H. P. Breuer eds. (Springer Verlag, 1999)

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