The frictional Schrödinger—Newton equation in models of wave function collapse
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Replacing the Newtonian coupling G by −iG, the Schrödinger—Newton equation becomes “frictional”. Instead of the reversible Schrödinger—Newton equation, we advocate its frictional version to generate the set of pointer states for macroscopic quantum bodies.
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