The new quantum logic

DOI10.1007/S10701-014-9802-4zbMATH Open1302.81014arXiv1311.2619OpenAlexW2067553334MaRDI QIDQ471345FDOQ471345

Authors: Robert B. Griffiths 

Publication date: 14 November 2014

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

Abstract: It is shown how all the major conceptual difficulties of standard (textbook) quantum mechanics, including the two measurement problems and the (supposed) nonlocality that conflicts with special relativity, are resolved in the consistent or decoherent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics by using a modified form of quantum logic to discuss quantum properties (subspaces of the quantum Hilbert space), and treating quantum time development as a stochastic process. The histories approach in turn gives rise to some conceptual difficulties, in particular the correct choice of a framework (probabilistic sample space) or family of histories, and these are discussed. The central issue is that the principle of unicity, the idea that there is a unique single true description of the world, is incompatible with our current understanding of quantum mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2619

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsconsistent historiesquantum logicconceptual difficultiesunicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

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