New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Quantum theory has been a subject of interpretational debates ever since its inception. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, the empirical violation of Bell’s inequalities, and recent activities to exploit quantum entanglement for technological innovation only exacerbate a long-standing philosophica...

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Главные авторы: Adrian Wüthrich (ed.), Tilman Sauer (ed.)
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description Quantum theory has been a subject of interpretational debates ever since its inception. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, the empirical violation of Bell’s inequalities, and recent activities to exploit quantum entanglement for technological innovation only exacerbate a long-standing philosophical debate. Despite no-signaling theorems and theories of decoherence, deep-rooted conflicts between special relativistic principles and observed quantum correlations as well as between definite measurement outcomes and quantum theoretical superpositions persist. This collection of papers, first presented at an international symposium at the University of Bern in 2011, highlights some recent approaches to the old problems of a philosophy of quantum mechanics. The authors address the issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from variations of causal theory and system theoretic interpretations of the observer to an empirical test of whether entanglement itself can be entangled. The essays demonstrate that the discussion about the foundations of quantum mechanics is as lively and interesting as ever.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-546402022-01-31T09:35:09Z New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Adrian Wüthrich (ed.) Tilman Sauer (ed.) quantum mechanics decoherence philosophy of science MPRL Edition Open Access history of science no-signaling causality Quantum theory has been a subject of interpretational debates ever since its inception. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, the empirical violation of Bell’s inequalities, and recent activities to exploit quantum entanglement for technological innovation only exacerbate a long-standing philosophical debate. Despite no-signaling theorems and theories of decoherence, deep-rooted conflicts between special relativistic principles and observed quantum correlations as well as between definite measurement outcomes and quantum theoretical superpositions persist. This collection of papers, first presented at an international symposium at the University of Bern in 2011, highlights some recent approaches to the old problems of a philosophy of quantum mechanics. The authors address the issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from variations of causal theory and system theoretic interpretations of the observer to an empirical test of whether entanglement itself can be entangled. The essays demonstrate that the discussion about the foundations of quantum mechanics is as lively and interesting as ever. 2021-02-11T20:59:21Z 2021-02-11T20:59:21Z 2017-03-07 12:14:48 2013 book 20555 9783844242843 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54640 eng Proceedings 3: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International http://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/26987 http://www.edition-open-access.de/proceedings/3/index.html Edition Open Access e3b46e08-88ff-4b35-af47-e887b8f3d8bb 9783844242843 188 open access
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New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
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