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Book details
File Size: 2.60 MB
Format: pdf
Print Length: 286 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2013 edition (November 6, 2012)
Publication Date: November 6, 2012
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00C1WB6YY

Benefits

Integrates and comments on the authors’ seminal papers in the field
Emphasizes the natural way in which quantum phenomena emerge from the Bohmian picture
Helps to answer many of the objections raised to Bohmian quantum mechanics
Useful overview and summary for newcomers and students
About this Book

It has often been claimed that without drastic conceptual innovations a genuine explanation of quantum interference effects and quantum randomness is impossible. This book concerns Bohmian mechanics, a simple particle theory that is a counterexample to such claims. The gentle introduction and other contributions collected here show how the phenomena of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to non-commuting observables, emerge from the Bohmian motion of particles, the natural particle motion associated with Schrödinger’s equation. This book will be of value to all students and researchers in physics with an interest in the meaning of quantum theory as well as to philosophers of science.

Table of contents (12 chapters)

Introduction
Quantum Equilibrium and the Origin of Absolute Uncertainty
Quantum Equilibrium and the Role of Operators as Observables in Quantum Theory
Quantum Philosophy: The Flight from Reason in Science
Seven Steps Towards the Classical World
On the Quantum Probability Flux through Surfaces
On the Weak Measurement of Velocity in Bohmian Mechanics
Topological Factors Derived From Bohmian Mechanics
Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac Models
Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Spacetime without Observers: Ontological Clarity and the Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Gravity
Reality and the Role of the Wave Function in Quantum Theory