Philosophy and the interpretation of quantum physics / Badis Ydri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ydri, Badis, author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory--Philosophy.

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

ix, 186 pages in various pagings : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : IOP Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Quantum mechanics is perhaps the greatest scientific breakthrough ever achieved. It brought with it a seismic paradigm shift in our way of thinking about nature, and at the same time, it underpins most of the dramatic technological innovations of the modern era, as well as providing a profound lasting impact on our metaphysical conception of reality. This book provides oversight of many views on the interpretation of quantum physics and the wide philosophical debate that still embroils this subject.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1.1. Introductory remarks

1.2. Organization of the book

1.3. References

References

2. The measurement problem and interpretations of quantum mechanics

2.1. The wave-particle duality and complementarity principle

2.2. Copenhagen interpretation

2.2.1. The von Neumann processes

2.2.2. The quantum Zeno effect and the collapse postulate

2.3. Entanglement entropy

2.3.1. The reduced density matrix

2.3.2. Entanglement entropy in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory

2.4. EPR and Bell's theorem

2.4.1. The Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen experiment

2.4.2. Theorems of quantum philosophy

2.4.3. Bell's theorem

2.5. Decoherence and the measurement problem

2.6. The many-worlds formalism

2.6.1. The many-worlds formalism and coherent branching

2.6.2. Schrodinger's cat and quantum immortality

2.6.3. The many-minds interpretation

2.7. Bohmian mechanics

2.7.1. A deterministic non-local theory

2.7.2. Beables

2.8. On observer-participancy or consciousness

2.8.1. Wigner's friend experiment

2.8.2. The von Neumann

Wigner interpretation

2.8.3. The extended Wigner's friend experiment

2.8.4. The mind/body problem and quantum Zeno effect: Stapp's theory

2.9. On observer-determinacy or Orch OR

2.9.1. Orchestrated objective reduction

2.9.2. Time and free will

3. The information loss problem in quantum black holes

3.1. The Schwarzschild black hole

3.1.1. The Schwarzschild black hole and Rindler spacetime

3.1.2. Particle motion in Schwarzschild spacetime

3.1.3. The Kruskal

Szekeres metric and Penrose diagrams

3.2. Hawking radiation and the information loss problem

3.2.1. Hawking temperature

3.2.2. Thermodynamics

3.2.3. Gravitational collapse

3.2.4. Information loss problem and the laws of physics

3.2.5. Unitarity and the Page curve

3.3. Black hole complementarity

3.4. The firewall and monogamy

3.4.1. Monogamy

3.4.2. Firewall

3.5. ER=EPR and the modification of quantum mechanics

3.5.1. ER=EPR

3.5.2. Interference as entanglement

3.5.3. The extended Wigner's friend experiment revisited

3.6. The holographic gauge/gravity duality

3.6.1. Holography

3.6.2. The black p-branes and supersymmetric Yang

Mills gauge theory

3.6.3. AdS/CFT correspondence

3.7. The geometry/entanglement connection

3.7.1. Ryu

Takayanagi formula

3.7.2. The CFT/BH correspondence

3.7.3. The first law of entanglement and Einstein's equations

3.8. Emergent time from entanglement verified experimentally

3.9. Other models of quantum gravity

3.9.1. Causal dynamical triangulation versus Horava

Lifshitz gravity

3.9.2. Matrix models of string theory and noncommutative geometry

3.9.3. The measurement problem within noncommutative geometry

4. Quantum dualism

4.1. The measurement problem as an information loss problem

4.2. The measurement problem and quantum entanglement

4.3. Quantum dualism

5. Black hole interpretation of quantum mechanics

5.1. On the complementarity between Copenhagen and many-worlds observers

5.2. On the black hole interpretation of quantum mechanics

5.3. On observers in quantum mechanics and the evaporation of black holes

6. On quantum logic and quantum metaphysics

6.1. Boolean algebras

6.1.1. Definition

6.1.2. Boolean algebras as lattices

6.1.3. Example 1: The minimal algebra

6.1.4. Example 2: Power sets under inclusion

6.1.5. Example 3: Classical propositional calculus and Lindenbaum

Tarski algebra

6.1.6. Example 4: The logical structure of the classical theory

6.2. The logical structure of the quantum theory

6.2.1. Hilbert space quantum mechanics

6.2.2. Experimental propositions

6.2.3. The logic of projectors

6.3. Hilbert lattices

6.3.1. Lattice theory

6.3.2. Hilbert lattices

6.3.3. Hilbert lattice as pasting of blocks

6.3.4. Spin one-half system

6.3.5. Spin one system

6.4. Gleason and the Kochen

Specker theorems

6.4.1. Gleason theorem

6.4.2. Theorems of quantum/experimental metaphysics

6.4.3. The set-up of the Kochen

Specker theorem

6.4.4. Peres construction

6.4.5. More on the assumptions of the Kochen

6.5. CHSH quantum game and free will theorem

7. Interpretation of the `Copenhagen interpretation'

7.1. Postulates of quantum mechanics

7.2. From quantum fundamentalism to semi-classical fundamentalism

7.3. The uncertainty/indeterminacy principle

7.4. The complementarity principle

7.5. The correspondence principle

7.6. The philosophy of Bohr

7.7. An executive summary

8. Neutral monism, perspectivism and quantum dualism

8.1. The anthropic principle

8.2. Quantum dualism as an informational neutral monism

8.3. The collapse of the wave function and the measurement problem

8.4. Quantum perspectivism and quantum logic

8.5. Physicalism, naturalistic dualism and neutral monism

8.6. Quantum dualism, Wigner's friend and solipsism

8.7. Simulation and matrix hypotheses

8.8. The arrow of time and the Boltzmann

Schuetz hypothesis

8.9. Time, free will and the quantum past

8.10. The mind/body problem, synchronicity and Bell's theorem

8.10.1. The mind/body problem

8.10.2. Synchronicity

8.10.3. The world-from-decoherence and the world-in-consciousness

8.10.4. Bell's theorem revisited

8.11. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0750325984

9780750325981

9780750326018

0750326018

OCLC:

1105723727

Publisher Number:

99990179337