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Author : K V Laurikainen,Claus Montonen
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814553315
The lectures focus on the relevance of the Copenhagen interpretation today and on the philosophy of Wolfgang Pauli.
Author : Kalervo Vihtori Laurikainen,Claus Montonen,K. Sunnarborg
Publisher : Atlantica Séguier Frontières
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Quantum theory
ISBN : 2863321692
Author : Diederik Aerts,Jaroslaw Pykacz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789401728348
Quantum Structures and the Nature of Reality is a collection of papers written for an interdisciplinary audience about the quantum structure research within the International Quantum Structures Association. The advent of quantum mechanics has changed our scientific worldview in a fundamental way. Many popular and semi-popular books have been published about the paradoxical aspects of quantum mechanics. Usually, however, these reflections find their origin in the standard views on quantum mechanics, most of all the wave-particle duality picture. Contrary to relativity theory, where the meaning of its revolutionary ideas was linked from the start with deep structural changes in the geometrical nature of our world, the deep structural changes about the nature of our reality that are indicated by quantum mechanics cannot be traced within the standard formulation. The study of the structure of quantum theory, its logical content, its axiomatic foundation, has been motivated primarily by the search for their structural changes. Due to the high mathematical sophistication of this quantum structure research, no books have been published which try to explain the recent results for an interdisciplinary audience. This book tries to fill this gap by collecting contributions from some of the main researchers in the field. They reveal the steps that have been taken towards a deeper structural understanding of quantum theory.
Author : Diederik Aerts,Thomas Durt,Marek Czachor
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814489409
During the last decade, scientists working in quantum theory have been engaging in promising new fields such as quantum computation and quantum information processing, and have also been reflecting on the possibilities of nonlinear behavior on the quantum level. These are challenging undertakings because (1) they will result in new solutions to important technical and practical problems that were unsolvable by the classical approaches (for example, quantum computers can calculate problems that are intractable if one uses classical computers); and (2) they open up new 'hard' problems of a fundamental nature that touch the foundation of quantum theory itself (for example, the contradiction between locality and nonlinearity and the interpretation of quantum computing as a universal process). In this book, one can distinguish two main streams of research to approach the just-mentioned problem field: (1) a theoretical structural part, which concentrates on the elaboration of a nonlinear quantum mechanics and the fundamentals of quantum computation; and (2) a theoretical experimental part, which focuses on the theoretical aspects of applications that arise from new technology and novel research perspectives such as quantum optics and quantum cryptography. Particular attention is also paid to the measurement problem, the classical limit and alternative interpretations (such as the hidden measurement approach). Contents:Probing the Structure of Quantum Mechanics (D Aerts et al.)The Linearity of Quantum Mechanics at Stake: The Description of Separated Quantum Entities (D Aerts & F Valckenborgh)Linearity and Compound Physical Systems: The Case of Two Separated Spin 1/2 Entities (D Aerts & F Valckenborgh)Being and Change: Foundations of a Realistic Operational Formalism (D Aerts)The Classical Limit of the Lattice-Theoretical Orthocomplementation in the Framework of the Hidden-Measurement Approach (T Durt & B D'Hooghe)State Property Systems and Closure Spaces: Extracting the Classical en Non-Classical Parts (D Aerts & D Deses)Hidden Measurements from Contextual Axiomatics (S Aerts)High Energy Approaches to Low Energy Phenomena in Astrophysics (S M Austin)Memory Effects in Atomic Interferometry: A Negative Result (T Durt et al.)Reality and Probability: Introducing a New Type of Probability Calculus (D Aerts)Quantum Computation: Towards the Construction of a ‘Between Quantum and Classical Computer’ (D Aerts & B D'Hooghe)Buckley-Siler Connectives for Quantum Logics of Fuzzy Sets (J Pykacz & B D'Hooghe)Some Notes on Aerts' Interpretation of the EPR-Paradox and the Violation of Bell-Inequalities (W Christiaens)Quantum Cryptographic Encryption in Three Complementary Bases Through a Mach-Zehnder Set Up (T Durt & B Nagler)Quantum Cryptography Without Quantum Uncertainties (T Durt)How to Construct Darboux-Invariant Equations of von Neumann Type (J L Cie(li(ski)Darboux-Integrable Equations with Non-Abelian Nonlinearities (N V Ustinov & M Czachor)Dressing Chain Equations Associated with Difference Soliton Systems (S Leble)Covariance Approach to the Free Photon Field (M Kuna & J Naudts) Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in quantum physics. Keywords:Quantum Mechanics;Quantum Computation;Quantum Information Processing
Author : Avshalom C. Elitzur,Shahar Dolev,Nancy Kolenda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540266693
Each contribution is an article in itself, and great effort has been made by the authors to be lucid and not too technical. A few brief highlights of the round-table discussions are given between the chapters. Topics include: Quantum non-locality, the measurement problem, quantum insights into relativity, cosmology and thermodynamics, and possible bearings of quantum mechanics to biology and consciousness. Authors include Yakir Aharanov and Anton Zeilinger, plus Nobel laureates Anthony J. Leggett (2003) and Gerardus ‘t Hooft (1999). Foreword written by Sir Roger Penrose, best-selling author (The Emperor's New Mind) and world-renowned mathematical physicist.
Author : Kalervo V. Laurikainen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642605604
When I meet a difficult problem, I begin to go around it, approaching it again and again from different directions. If I persistently continue these approaches, it can happen that no problem remains. (RolfNevanlinna, in a private discussion.) In 1976, after a mainly administrative period of some 15 years, I spent a couple of months at CERN, working in the Pauli Collection. When I found the Pauli-Fierz correspondence, I had the intuitive feeling that there was the key: that "it was an objective description, and that it was the only possible objective description" for the mysteries of quantum mechanics. Here I have cited Bohr in his 'last interview' (see Chap. 7), which I became acquainted with only later, but I was immediately convinced that Pauli's view was more profound than anything else I had read about in quantum mechanics. However, nowadays the investigation of the foundations of quantum theory is dominated by 'realism', which means that the influence of the psyche on our conception of reality is ignored. This book is an attempt to show that this is not possible in quantum mechanics.
Author : Bruno Gruber,Michael Ramek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781489915375
Proceedings an International Symposium held in Bregenz, Austria, July 13-18, 1997
Author : M. Ferrero,Alwyn van der Merwe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401585293
For many physicists quantum theory contains strong conceptual difficulties, while for others the apparent conclusions about the reality of our physical world and the ways in which we discover that reality remain philosophically unacceptable. This book focuses on recent theoretical and experimental developments in the foundations of quantum physics, including topics such as the puzzles and paradoxes which appear when general relativity and quantum mechanics are combined; the emergence of classical properties from quantum mechanics; stochastic electrodynamics; EPR experiments and Bell's Theorem; the consistent histories approach and the problem of datum uniqueness in quantum mechanics; non-local measurements and teleportation of quantum states; quantum non-demolition measurements in optics and matter wave properties observed by neutron, electron and atomic interferometry. Audience: This volume is intended for graduate students of physics and those interested in the foundations of quantum theory.
Author : Harald Atmanspacher,Gerhard J. Dalenoort
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642486470
In our daily lives we conceive of our surroundings as an objectively given reality. The world is perceived through our senses, and ~hese provide us, so we believe, with a faithful image of the world. But occ~ipnally we are forced to realize that our senses deceive us, e. g. , by illusions. For a while it was believed that the sensation of color is directly r~lated to the frequency of light waves, until E. Land (the inventor of the polaroid camera) showed in detailed experiments that our perception of, say, a colored spot depends on the colors of its surrounding. On the other hand, we may experience hallucinations or dreams as real. Quite evidently, the relationship between the "world" and our "brain" is intricate. Another strange problem is the way in which we perceive time or the "Now". Psychophysical experiments tell us that the psychological "Now" is an extended period of time in the sense of physics. The situation was made still more puzzling when, in the nineteen-twenties, Heisenberg and others realized that, by observing processes in the microscopic world of electrons and other elementary particles, we strongly interfere with that world. The outcome of experiments - at least in general - can only be predicted statistically. What is the nature ofthis strange relationship between "object" and "observer"? This is another crucial problem of the inside-outside or endo-exo dichotomy.
Author : Pavel Bóna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030450700
This book investigates two possibilities for describing classical-mechanical physical systems along with their Hamiltonian dynamics in the framework of quantum mechanics.The first possibility consists in exploiting the geometrical properties of the set of quantum pure states of "microsystems" and of the Lie groups characterizing the specific classical system. The second approach is to consider quantal systems of a large number of interacting subsystems – i.e. macrosystems, so as to study the quantum mechanics of an infinite number of degrees of freedom and to look for the behaviour of their collective variables. The final chapter contains some solvable models of “quantum measurement" describing dynamical transitions from "microsystems" to "macrosystems".
Author : Harald Atmanspacher,Ulrich Müller-Herold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319435732
This book reflects on the significant and highly original scientific contributions of Hans Primas. A professor of chemistry at ETH Zurich from 1962 to 1995, Primas continued his research activities until his death in 2014. Over these 50 years and more, he worked on the foundations of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, contributed to a number of significant issues in theoretical chemistry, helped to clarify central topics in quantum theory and the philosophy of physics, suggested innovative ways of addressing interlevel relations in the philosophy of science, and introduced cutting-edge approaches in the flourishing young field of scientific studies of consciousness. His work in these areas of research and its continuing impact is described by noted experts, colleagues, and collaborators of Primas. All authors contextualize their contributions to facilitate the mutual dialog between these fields.
Author : Jeremy Butterfield,John Earman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1481 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780444515605
The ambition of this volume is twofold: to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and to serve as an indispensable reference work for anyone who wants to work in it. For example, any philosopher who hopes to make a contribution to the topic of the classical-quantum correspondence will have to begin by consulting Klaas Landsman's chapter. The organization of this volume, as well as the choice of topics, is based on the conviction that the important problems in the philosophy of physics arise from studying the foundations of the fundamental theories of physics. It follows that there is no sharp line to be drawn between philosophy of physics and physics itself. Some of the best work in the philosophy of physics is being done by physicists, as witnessed by the fact that several of the contributors to the volume are theoretical physicists: viz., Ellis, Emch, Harvey, Landsman, Rovelli, 't Hooft, the last of whom is a Nobel laureate. Key features - Definitive discussions of the philosophical implications of modern physics - Masterly expositions of the fundamental theories of modern physics - Covers all three main pillars of modern physics: relativity theory, quantum theory, and thermal physics - Covers the new sciences grown from these theories: for example, cosmology from relativity theory; and quantum information and quantum computing, from quantum theory - Contains special Chapters that address crucial topics that arise in several different theories, such as symmetry and determinism - Written by very distinguished theoretical physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, as well as by philosophers - Definitive discussions of the philosophical implications of modern physics - Masterly expositions of the fundamental theories of modern physics - Covers all three main pillars of modern physics: relativity theory, quantum theory, and thermal physics - Covers the new sciences that have grown from these theories: for example, cosmology from relativity theory; and quantum information and quantum computing, from quantum theory - Contains special Chapters that address crucial topics that arise in several different theories, such as symmetry and determinism - Written by very distinguished theoretical physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, as well as by philosophers
Author : Jeffrey Bub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 052165386X
Philosophy of physics title by highly regarded author, fully revised for this paperback edition.
Author : Robert S. Cohen,M. Horne,J.J. Stachel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401727327
Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be `entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a metaphysical potentiality. Abner has described these events without actions to link them as `passion at a distance': not active, but passive. The discussions gathered here are written by a truly remarkable cast of scientists and philosophers and shed new light on the most profound puzzles of our times.
Author : Lajos Diosi,B Lukacs
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814551731
Due to the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics, quantum state evolution has both dynamic and stochastic features. Various systems show both features simultaneously and permanently. This workshop was intended to discuss the common trends, in measurement theory, statistical physics, quantum optics and cosmology.This proceedings volume contains most of the invited talks and may offer an insight into the current variety of related ideas.
