Quantum causality : conceptual issues in the causal theory of quantum mechanics
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht, [Netherlands] ; New York, N.Y. :
Springer Verlag,
c2009.
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| Series: | Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;
v. 23. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Riggs, Peter J. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Quantum causality : |b conceptual issues in the causal theory of quantum mechanics |c by Peter J. Riggs. |
| 260 | |a Dordrecht, [Netherlands] ; |a New York, N.Y. : |b Springer Verlag, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xi, 230 p. : |b ill. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Studies in history and philosophy of science ; |v v. 23 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a General introduction. Quantum reality ; Causation, causality, and determinism ; Introducing the Casual Theory of Wave Mechanics ; Assessing rival scientific theories ; Conceptual issues, theoretical and conceptual problems -- Preliminaries. Orthodox Quantum Theory and its mathematical formalism ; Uncertainty at the quantum level ; The measurement problem and quantum paradoxes ; "Hidden variable" theories and impossibility proofs -- The Casual Theory of Quantum Mechanics. Motivations for the Casual Theory ; An axiomatic foundation ; One particle states ; Statistical predictions ; Dynamic Theory of Measurement ; Many particle states and non-locality ; Resolution of the quantum paradoxes ; Transition to the classical realm ; Quantum equilibrium, metaphysics, and consistency -- Energy and the wave field. The wave field and the concept of energy ; The active information hypothesis ; A non-interactive approach to the wave field ; The physical nature of potential energy ; The existence and characteristics of the wave field ; Non-locality and the wave field ; Can the Casual Theory be made relativistic? -- Energy-momentum transfer and the quantum potential. Energy conservation in the Casual Theory? ; Energy-momentum exchange in single particle states ; Wave field energy and its transfer ; Quantum reaction? ; The wave field and the quantum potential ; The wave field and physical measurement ; Tunnelling from a quantum well ; The quantum mechanical force ; Empirical consequences -- The Exclusion Principle. What is the Exclusion Principle? ; Quantum mechanical spin ; The Exclusion Principle in the Casual Theory ; A basis for the Exclusion Principle ; Modelling of fermionic wave fields -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A. The gaussian wave packet -- Appendix B. Derivatives and integrals -- Appendix C. Hamiltonian of a classically-free gaussian quantum system -- Appendix D. Energy content of a gaussian wave field -- Appendix E. Summary of defined principles. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Quantum theory. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Causality (Physics) | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; |v v. 23. | |
| 988 | |a 20090817 | ||
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