A nonunitary dynamics for a macroscopic object arises as a natural consequence of a universally valid Schr\"odinger equation and thus need not be postulated ad hoc. The density-matrix formalism does not, however, allow one to deduce classical states (particle trajectories) without invoking additional principles.
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Erich Joos (1987) studied this question.
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