Experimental motivation and empirical consistency in minimal no-collapse quantum mechanics

@article{Schlosshauer2006ExperimentalMA,
  title={Experimental motivation and empirical consistency in minimal no-collapse quantum mechanics},
  author={Maximilian Schlosshauer},
  journal={Annals of Physics},
  year={2006},
  volume={321},
  pages={112-149}
}
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