World According to Quantum Mechanics:Why the Laws of Physics Make Perfect Sense after All (Second Edition)

World According to Quantum Mechanics:Why the Laws of Physics Make Perfect Sense after All (Second Edition)

符合量子力学的世界：为什么物理定律在所有情况下都能完美呈现（第二版）
理论物理学

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Mohrhoff Ulrich et al

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World Scientific Publishing

出版时间

2018年09月17日

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9789813273696

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375

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英文

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Apart from providing a lucid introduction to the mathematical formalism and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, we explain why the laws of physics have the form that they do. In addition, we present a new and unique look at the quantum world, steering clear of two common errors: the error of the ψ-ontologists, who reify a calculational tool; and the error of the anti-realists, for whom physical theories are simply devices for expressing regularities among observations. The new edition of this acclaimed text adds around 200 pages on a variety of topics, such as how the founders sought to make sense of quantum mechanics, Kant’s theory of science, QBism, Everettian quantum mechanics, de Broglie–Bohm theory, environmental decoherence, contextuality, nonlocality, and the paradox of subjectivity — the curious fact that the world seems to exist twice, once for us, in our minds, and once by itself, independently of us. Key Features: oPresents the formalism of quantum mechanics in a clear and compelling manner oUseful to both students (undergraduate as well as graduate) and teachers (including higher secondary) oServes as the missing link between the popular literature on quantum mechanics and the academic literature

Overview: Probability: Basic Concepts and Theorems; A Brief History of the \"Old\" Theory (Planck, Rutherford, Bohr, de Broglie); The \"New\" Theory (Schrödinger, Born, Heisenberg and \"Uncertainty\", Tunneling, a Quantum Bouncing Ball); The Feynman Route to Schrödinger; Special Relativity in a Nutshell; A Closer Look: Quantum Mechanics: A Probability Calculus (Upgrading from Classical to Quantum, Why Complex Numbers?, How Probabilities Depend on Measurement Outcomes, How Probabilities Depend on the Times of Measurements, the Rules of the Game); The Classical Forces: Effects; The Classical Forces: Causes; Quantum Mechanics Resumed (Elitzur and Vaidman Experiment, Observables, Commutators, Pictures, Conserved Quantities, Uncertainty for Non-Commuting Operators); Spin 1/2 (Including: Quantum Zeno Effect, Stern–Gerlach Experiment as Example of an Unsharp Observable); Angular Momentum and the Hydrogen Atom; Composite Systems (Bell’s Theorem, Entanglement, the EPR Argument, Uses and Abuses of Counterfactual Reasoning, the Experiment of Englert, Scully, and Walther, Influencing the Past?); Contextuality, Locality, Realism, and All That (Kochen and Specker; Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger; Klyachko’s Inequality, Time-Symmetric Probability Assignments, Testing the CHSH Inequality, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity: Truce or Synergy?); Quantum Statistics (Including: Quantum Coins and Quantum Dice, Measuring Sirius); Relativistic Particles; Making Sense: How the Founders Sought to Make Sense (Including: The 1927 Solvay Conference, de Broglie’s Two Theories, the World According to Kant, Schrödinger’s Parallelism, State of Knowledge or Nexus of Potentialities?, Niels Bohr, or Why We are Not Dreaming); Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness (Von Neumann, London and Bauer, Wigner, Schrödinger Redux, Towards a Transcendental Derivation of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Free Will); QBism; ψ-Ontology (\"The Great Scandal of Physics\", Is There a \"Bare\" Quantum Formalism?, Quantum State Evolution and the Eigenvalue–Eigenstate Link, Semantic Consistency and the Problem of Objectification, Everettian Quantum Mechanics, a Qbist Analysis of the Deutsch–Wallace Approach, Bohmian Mechanics); Environment-Induced Decoherence; Space, Time, and the Macroworld (Including: The Meaning of \"Both\", the Importance of Unperformed Measurements, Spatiotemporal Differentiation: Not \"All the Way Down\"); Questions of Substance; Manifestation; Why the Laws of Physics are Just So; Consciousness and the Physical World; Quanta and Vedanta (Including: The Poises of Creative Consciousness, Houdini Brahman); Appendix A: Some Mathematical Tools; Appendix B: Solutions to Selected Problems;

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