A modal-Hamiltonian interpretation of quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.01.003zbMATH Open1223.81035arXivquant-ph/0610121OpenAlexW2169598121MaRDI QIDQ643465FDOQ643465

Authors: Olimpia Lombardi, Mario Castagnino 

Publication date: 31 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to introduce a new member of the family of the modal interpretations of quantum mechanics. In this modal-Hamiltonian interpretation, the Hamiltonian of the quantum system plays a decisive role in the property-ascription rule that selects the definite-valued observables whose possible values become actual. We show that this interpretation is effective for solving the measurement problem, both in its ideal and its non-ideal versions, and we argue for the physical relevance of the property-ascription rule by applying it to well-known physical situations. Moreover, we explain how this interpretation supplies a description of the elemental categories of the ontology referred to by the theory, where quantum systems turn out to be bundles of possible properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0610121

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zbMATH Keywords

classical limitquantum mechanicsquantum ontologydecoherenceHamiltonianquantum measurementmodal interpretation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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