FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: DECOHERENCE AND INTERPRETATION

DOI10.1142/S0218271811019074MaRDI QIDQ3021387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Olimpia Lombardi, Sebastian Fortin, Martin Narvaja, Juan Sebastian Ardenghi

Publication date 25 July 2011

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0322

zbMATH Keywords

decoherencemodal-Hamiltonian interpretationquantum ontology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: In this paper we review Castagnino's contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics. First, we recall his work on quantum decoherence in closed systems, and the proposal of a general framework for decoherence from which the phenomenon acquires a conceptually clear meaning. Then, we introduce his contribution to the hard field of the interpretation of quantum mechanics: the modal-Hamiltonian interpretation solves many of the interpretive problems of the theory, and manifests its physical relevance in its application to many traditional models of the practice of physics. In the third part of this work we describe the ontological picture of the quantum world that emerges from the modal-Hamiltonian interpretation, stressing the philosophical step toward a deep understanding of the reference of the theory.

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