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The new techniques and ideas in quantum interferometry with neutrons, photons, atoms, electrons, and Bose condensates that fluorished in the last two decades have influenced in a decisive way the thinking and the research in the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics. The controversies existing among different schools on the reality of matter waves of quantum theory, the postulates of quantum measurement theory, and the (in)completeness of quantum mechanics have to be approached now in a new way. Our argumentation follows the spirit of the Paris school.
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Božić, M., Marić, Z. Quantum Interference, Quantum Theory of Measurement, and (In)completeness of Quantum Mechanics. Foundations of Physics 28, 415–427 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018712011063
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