Quantum epistemology from subquantum ontology: Quantum mechanics from theory of classical random fields

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2016.12.005MaRDI QIDQ2398360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrei Khrennikov

Publication date 16 August 2017

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05907

zbMATH Keywords

superposition principledensity operatorsprequantum classical statistical field theorycorrelations of classical random fieldsontic-epistemic descriptionsubquantum models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: The scientific methodology based on two descriptive levels, ontic (reality as it is ) and epistemic (observational), is briefly presented. Following Schr"odinger, we point to the possible gap between these two descriptions. Our main aim is to show that, although ontic entities may be inaccessible for observations, they can be useful for clarification of the physical nature of operational epistemic entities. We illustrate this thesis by the concrete example: starting with the concrete ontic model preceding quantum mechanics (the latter is treated as an epistemic model), namely, prequantum classical statistical field theory (PCSFT), we propose the natural physical interpretation for the basic quantum mechanical entity - the quantum state ("wave function"). The correspondence PCSFT to QM is not straightforward, it couples the covariance operators of classical (prequantum) random fields with the quantum density operators. We use this correspondence to clarify the physical meaning of the pure quantum state and the superposition principle - by using the formalism of classical field correlations.

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