The conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics / Jeffrey A. Barrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, Jeffrey Alan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This work provides an introduction to the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, from classical mechanics and a discussion of the quantum phenomena that undermine our classical intuitions about how the physical world works, to the quantum measurement problem and alternatives to the standard von Neumann-Dirac formulation.

Contents:

Preface

List of Figures

1: Classical Mechanics

2: Quantum Phenomena

3: The Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics

4: The Standard Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

5: Quantum Interference

6: Real and/or Local

7: The Quantum Measurement Problem

8: The Collapse of the Quantum State

9: Pure Wave Mechanics

10: Many Worlds and Such

11: Bohmian Mechanics

12: Empirical Ontology and Explanation

APPENDIX A: A Formal Characterization of Hilbert Space

Index.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 29, 2020).

ISBN:

9780191889196

0191889199

9780192583116

0192583115