Quantum mechanics as a principle theory

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(99)00032-5zbMATH Open1222.81045arXivquant-ph/9910096OpenAlexW2593080062MaRDI QIDQ720374FDOQ720374

Jeffrey Bub

Publication date: 14 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: I show how quantum mechanics, like the theory of relativity, can be understood as a 'principle theory' in Einstein's sense, and I use this notion to explore the approach to the problem of interpretation developed in my book Interpreting the Quantum World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9910096

zbMATH Keywords

decoherenceentangled statesinterpretation of quantum mechanicsteleportationprinciple theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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