Meanings
adjectivesuperselected (not comparable)
- not comparableChosen through superselection.
Indeed, Landsman rejects the modal semantics in favor of the rule that all and only those observables whose operators are self-adjoint and are superselected in the sense that they belong to the center of the von Neumann algebra of observables have definite values.
2008 September 27, John Earman, “Superselection Rules for Philosophers”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI
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