The -quantum machine, the k-model, and the non-ordinary spatiality of quantum entities

DOI10.1007/S10699-011-9284-1zbMATH Open1272.81012arXiv1104.4738OpenAlexW2067555614MaRDI QIDQ360436FDOQ360436

Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

Publication date: 27 August 2013

Published in: Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The purpose of this article is threefold. Firstly, it aims to present, in an educational and non-technical fashion, the main ideas at the basis of Aerts' creation-discovery view and hidden measurement approach: a fundamental explanatory framework whose importance, in this author's view, has been seriously underappreciated by the physics community, despite its success in clarifying many conceptual challenges of quantum physics. Secondly, it aims to introduce a new quantum-machine - that we call the delta-quantum-machine - which is able to reproduce the transmission and reflection probabilities of a one-dimensional quantum scattering process by a Dirac delta-function potential. The machine is used not only to demonstrate the pertinence of the above mentioned explanatory framework, in the general description of physical systems, but also to illustrate (in the spirit of Aerts' epsilon-model) the origin of classical and quantum structures, by revealing the existence of processes which are neither classical nor quantum, but irreducibly intermediate. We do this by explicitly introducing what we call the k-model and by proving that its processes cannot be modelized by a classical or quantum scattering system. The third purpose of this work is to exploit the powerful metaphor provided by our quantum-machine, to investigate the intimate relation between the concept of potentiality and the notion of non-spatiality, that we characterize in precise terms, introducing for this the new concept of process-actuality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4738

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zbMATH Keywords

creation-discovery viewdelta-function potentialhidden measurement approachnon-spatialityone-dimensional scatteringpotentialityquantum structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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