A Completion of Quantum Mechanics

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Authors Jürg Fröhlich, Zhou Gang, A. Pizzo

Publication date 20 March 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sample path properties (60G17) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: We review a proposal of how to complete non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics to a physically meaningful, mathematically precise and logically coherent theory. This proposal has been dubbed extit{ETH - Approach} to Quantum Mechanics, ``$E$ standing for ``Events, ``$T$ for ``Trees, and ``$H$ for ``Histories. The $ETH$ - Approach supplies the last one of three pillars Quantum Mechanics can be constructed upon in such a way that its foundations are solid and stable. Two of these pillars are well known. The third one has been proposed quite recently; it implies a general non-linear stochastic extit{law} for the time-evolution of states of extit{individual} physical systems. We illustrate the general ideas and results by sketching an application to the quantum theory of extit{fluorescence} of an atom coupled to the radiation field (in a limit where the velocity of light tends to $infty$).

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