Collapse of the Wave Function (eBook, PDF)

Models, Ontology, Origin, and Implications
Redaktion: Gao, Shan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first single volume about the collapse theories of quantum mechanics, which is becoming a very active field of research in both physics and philosophy. In standard quantum mechanics, it is postulated that when the wave function of a quantum system is measured, it no longer follows the Schrodinger equation, but instantaneously and randomly collapses to one of the wave functions that correspond to definite measurement results. However, why and how a definite measurement result appears is unknown. A promising solution to this problem are collapse theories in which the collapse of the wave function is spontaneous and dynamical. Chapters written by distinguished physicists and philosophers of physics discuss the origin and implications of wave-function collapse, the controversies around collapse models and their ontologies, and new arguments for the reality of wave function collapse. This is an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in the philosophy of physics and foundations of quantum mechanics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108562263
• Artikelnr.: 53399931

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Models: 1. How to teach and think
about spontaneous wave function collapse theories: not like before Lajos
Diósi; 2. What really matters in Hilbert-space stochastic processes
Giancarlo Ghirardi, Oreste Nicrosini and Alberto Rimini; 3. Dynamical
collapse for photons Philip Pearle; 4. Quantum state reduction Dorje C.
Brody and Lane P. Hughston; 5. Collapse models and spacetime symmetries
Daniel J. Bedingham; Part II. Ontology: 6. Ontology for collapse theories
Wayne C. Myrvold; 7. Properties and the born rule in GRW Theory Roman
Frigg; 8. Paradoxes and primitive ontology in collapse theories of quantum
mechanics Roderich Tumulka; 9. On the status of primitive ontology Peter J.
Lewis; 10. Collapse or no collapse? What is the best ontology of quantum
mechanics in the primitive ontology framework? Michael Esfeld; Part III.
Origin: 11. Quantum state reduction via gravity, and possible tests using
Bose-Einstein condensates Ivette Fuentes and Roger Penrose; 12. Collapse.
What else? Nicolas Gisin; 13. Three arguments for the reality of
wave-function collapse Shan Gao; Part IV. Implications: 14. Could inelastic
interactions induce quantum probabilistic transitions? Nicholas Maxwell;
15. How the Schrödinger Equation would predict collapse: an explicit
mechanism Roland Omnes; 16. Wave function collapse, non-locality, and
space-time structure Tejinder P. Singh; 17. The weight of collapse:
dynamical reduction models in general relativistic contexts Elias Okon and
Daniel Sudarsky; Index.