Collapse of the wave function : models, ontology, origin, and implications / edited by Shan Gao, Shanxi University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Gao, Shan, 1971- editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wave functions.

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

How to teach and think about spontaneous wave function collapse theories: not like before / Lajos Diósi

What really matters in Hilbert-space stochastic processes / Giancarlo Ghirardi, Oreste Nicrosini and Alberto Rimini

Dynamical collapse for photons / Philip Pearle

Quantum state reduction / Dorje C. Brody and Lane P. Hughston

Collapse models and spacetime symmetries / Daniel J. Bedingham

Ontology for collapse theories / Wayne C. Myrvold

Properties and the born rule in GRW theory / Roman Frigg

Paradoxes and primitive ontology in collapse theories of quantum mechanics / Roderich Tumulka

On the status of primitive ontology / Peter J. Lewis

Collapse or no collapse? What is the best ontology of quantum mechanics in the primitive ontology framework? / Michael Esfeld

Quantum state reduction via gravity, and possible tests using Bose-Einstein condensates / Ivette Fuentes and Roger Penrose

Collapse. What else? / Nicolas Gisin

Three arguments for the reality of wave-function collapse / Shan Gao

Could inelastic interactions induce quantum probabilistic transitions? / Nicholas Maxwell

How the Schrödinger equation would predict collapse: an explicit mechanism / Roland Omnes

Wave function collapse, non-locality, and space-time structure / Tejinder P. Singh

The weight of collapse: dynamical reduction models in general relativistic contexts / Elias Okon and Daniel Sudarsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781316995457

1316995453

Publisher Number:

99976905774

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.