Foundations
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General Issues > s.a. [quantum mechanics]; information; interpretations; realism;
sub-quantum theories.
* Idea: There are several
big conceptual issues in quantum mechanics, related to each other, such as
Does a quantum state represent reality or our knowledge of reality? Quantum
mechanics
has
holistic aspects that
we have a difficult time understanding.
* History: The intuitive,
local realism view of physics was challenged by the EPR "paradox" (1935)
about reality, locality and completeness, Bell's inequality (1964) about
reality
and locality, the Hardy-Jordan experiment (1993) tested by Torgerson et al
[@
PLA(95),
PLA(96)], GHZ states of N > 2
particles.
* Status: Quantum mechanics
has passed all experimental tests so far, many more than it had originally
been
designed
to pass, from the structure of matter to the dynamics of
stars and the quantum Hall effect; The problems lie in the interpretational
aspects.
@ Early papers: Einstein et al PR(31);
Eddington 46 [and Durham qp/06].
@ General references:
Mugur-Schächter 64; Ballentine et al PT(71);
Groenewold PRP(74), PRP(83),
PRP(83), PRP(85);
Jasselette IJQC(80)
[panel discussion]; Aspect et al PT(85)nov;
Duch & Aerts PT(86)jun;
Groenewold PRP(87)
[bilocality]; d'Espagnat PRP(84),
FP(87),
89; Omnès PLA(87);
Redhead 87; Gibbins 88; Home & Whitaker PLA(88)
[without collapse]; Bub BJPS(89);
Redhead BJPS(89);
Piron HPA(89); Jauch 90;
Wimmel 92; Borg Arkh(92)phy/06;
Sonego AFLB(92); Unruh PRA(94)ht/93;
Sommers gq/94 [role
of future]; Haag in(00); Mitra qp/05-in;
Kracklauer qp/06 [meaning
of terms]; Appleby qp/06-in;
van Enk a0705 [toy
model for quantum mechanics]; Grinbaum BJPS(07)
[from interpretation to reconstruction]; Kupczynski a0710-in;
Ferrero et al a0804.
@ Paradoxes: Peres
FP(84);
Selleri 90; Aharonov & Rohrlich 05; Kryukov a0708;
Rohrlich a0708-in
[and errors].
@ Contextuality: Clifton AJP(93);
Svozil qp/99 [model], qp/04-in
[and counterfactuals]; Appleby PRA(02)
[existential]; Steane JPA(07)qp/06
[and unitarity and time reversal]; Bishop & Atmanspacher FP(06);
Kupczynski a0710-in; > s.a. logic.
@ Ontology: Margenau PhSc(49)
[quantum objects as 'onta']; Albert et al PRL(85)
[properties and predictions]; Peruzzi FP(90)
[objects]; Pusch SHPMP(02)
[classical vs quantum]; Mohrhoff qp/03-in
[and spacetime]; Hardy SHPMP(04)
[ontological embedding]; Singh qp/04 [general];
De Baere qp/05 [Renninger's
thought experiment]; Caponigro & Lynn qp/06;
Verelst
& Coecke phy/06 ['system',
'entity', and being vs non-being]; Monton PhSc(07);
de la Torre FP(07)
[position and momentum have no values]; > s.a. correlations, quantum
field theory.
@ Objectivity vs subjectivity: Garola FP(00);
Carter qp/05-in
[micro-anthropic principle]; Harrigan & Spekkens a0706.
@ Completeness: Page PLA(82);
Kunstatter & Trainor PLA(84);
Ford & Mantica AJP(92); Benioff PRA(99)qp/98 [+
validity, consistency]; Marchildon
FP(04)qp
[incompleteness]; Magnus BJPS(04)
[inconsistency of "bare theory"]; Garola qp/05 [and
notions of truth].
@ Related topics: Angelidis JMP(93)
[local extension]; Tartaglia EJP(98)qp [instruction
kits]; Bub SHPMP(00)
[nature of quantum mechanics]; Lyre
qp/03-in
["ur-theory"]; D'Hondt & Panangaden qp/05-in
[quantum knowledge]; Mugur-Schächter a0801 [infra quantum mechanics].
> Related issues:
see causality; Complementarity; Counterfactuals; Determinism; experiments; formulations; locality; measurement; philosophy
of science; photon;
probabilities; quantum
cosmology; semiclassical; Trajectories.
Individual Particle or System > s.a. mixed
states.
* Wave functions are real: Schrödinger's
original interpretation; The wave function is actual density of stuff.
* Problems with wave function
= particle: Wave packets spread, particles don't;
What about systems with N > 1 particles?
@ General references: Hartle AJP(68);
Hoyt AJP(68);
Peres AJP(74),
van Heerden AJP(75),
Peres AJP(75)
[state of single system?]; Barut FP(90);
Aharonov & Vaidman
JPA(91), PLA(93);
Ballentine FP(92);
Anandan FPL(93);
Nussinov FP(98)qp/96;
Hegerfeldt qp/97-in;
Komar in(99); Ax & Kochen qp/99;
Zhu & Shan qp/00;
Zeh in(04)qp/02.
@ Wave functions are real: Barut AdP(88), FP(88), FPL(88)
[Schrödinger];
Liu BJPS(94);
Jabs PE(96)qp;
Lewis BJPS(04)
[less problematic].
@ And measurement: Aharonov et al PRA(93); Busch & Lahti
JPA(96); D'Ariano & Yuen
PRL(96); Raymer CP(97); Rempe pw(00)dec
[experiments with single atoms]; Wechsler qp/04 [position,
criticism of statistical interpretation]; Di Lorenzo qp/06 [proposed
experiment].
@ Related topics: Paul AJP(85)
[photon polarization example]; Audretsch et al
PLA(97)qp [visualizing];
Kadin qp/06 [interpreted
as analogous to magnetic domain]; Longpré & Kreinovich IJTP(08)
[and quantum cosmology, algorithmic information theory].
General References > s.a. correlations; interpretations;
quantum mechanics.
@ I: d'Espagnat SA(79)nov; Shimony SA(88)jan; Brown et al PT(89)apr;
Ball Nat(90)sep;
Horgan SA(92)jul; Nadeau & Kafatos 00; Malin 01 [and Western philosophy];
Tegmark & Wheeler
SA(01)feb; Musser SA(04)aug [Einstein's view]; 't Hooft et al pw(05)dec
[forum].
@ II: Lamb PT(69)apr; Belinfante AJP(78);
Keller AJP(79);
Stedman AJP(85);
Mermin AJP(81), AJP(90), AJP(94), AJP(98);
Jordan AJP(94);
Goldstein
PT(98)apr; Bilodeau qp/98;
Leggett pw(99)dec;
Laloë AJP(01)qp/02;
Adenier AJP(08)feb.
@ Papers: Bunge AJP(56);
DeWitt PT(70)sep, PT(71)apr;
Omnès AP(90),
RMP(92);
Costa de Beauregard FP(92);
Rosu MR(97)gq/94;
Goldstein in(96)qp [attitude
of physicists]; Tegmark FdP(98)qp/97;
Mohrhoff qp/00 [cookie
cutter paradigm]; Aerts in(99)qp/01;
de Muynck qp/01-in;
Mohrhoff
qp/01;
Khrennikov & Summhammer qp/01 [math/experiment];
Cassinello & Gallego AJP(05)
[world view].
@ Books: Jammer 64; Blokhintsev 68; Pagels 82; Herbert 85; Davies & Brown
86; Bell 87; Redhead 87; Hughes 89; Peat 90; Cushing 94; Omnès 94; Isham
95; Bub 97; Auletta 00; Cook 02; de Muynck 02 [empiricist].
@ Books, I: Davies 80; Gribbin 84; Von Baeyer 92; Lindley 96; Greenstein & Zajonc
97.
@ Books, II: Bohm 80; d'Espagnat 83; Baggott 92; Squires 94; Wick 95;
Baggott 04; Ghirardi 04.
@ Collections: Ballentine ed-88; Schommers ed-89; Miller ed-90; Garola & Rossi
ed-95; Fuchs & Mermin qp/01;
Khrennikov qp/03-in;
Elitzur ed-05.
@ Philosophical: Reichenbach 44; Cushing & McMullin ed-89; Butterfield BJPS(92); Schommers 95; Busch SC(01)qp-in;
Davies BJPS(05);
Hartle qp/06-in [quantum physics and human language].
@ References: Ballentine AJP(87)RL;
Cabello qp/00.
Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
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