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In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger wrote an essay that caused an intellectual uprising in the physics community. It bore the title The current situation in quantum mechanics (original German title: Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik). In it Schrödinger asked: What do we actually measure in quantum systems?
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W.Heisenberg, Wandlungen der Grundlagen der exakten Naturwissenschaft in jüngster Zeit, Talk at the German Society of Scientists and Medical Doctors (Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte), Hannover, 17. September 1934, Angewandte Chemie 47 (1934).
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E. Schrödinger, Discussion of Probability Relations between separate systems, Proceedings of the Cambridge Physical Society, 31, 55 (1935).
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Jaeger, L. (2018). Cat Destinies: The Quantum Physical Measurement Problem. In: The Second Quantum Revolution. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98824-5_21
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