The Oxford handbook of the history of quantum interpretations / edited by Olival Freire, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freire, Olival, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory--History.

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 1296 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Other Title:

Handbook of the history of quantum interpretations

History of quantum interpretations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This Oxford handbook provides a rigorous, interdisciplinary review of the history of interpretations of quantum physics, presenting the key controversies within the field, as well as outlining its successes and its extraordinary potential across various scientific fields.

Contents:

Introduction / Olival Freire Jr., Guido Bacciagaluppi, Olivier Darrigol, Thiago Hartz, Christian Joas, Alexei Kojevnikov, Osvaldo Pessoa

A perennially grinning Cheshire cat? Over a century of experiments on light quanta and their perplexing interpretations / Klaus Hentschel

The evolving understanding of quantum statistics / Daniela Monaldi

The measurement problem / Osvaldo Pessoa

Einstein's Criticisms of Quantum Mechanics / Michel Paty

Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell's Inequality / David I. Kaiser

The measuring process in quantum field theory / Thiago Hartz

The Interpretation Debate and Quantum Gravity / Alexander Blum, Bernadette Lessel

Quantum information and the quest for reconstruction of Quantum Theory / Alexei Grinbaum

Natural reconstructions of quantum mechanics / Olivier Darrigol

The axiomatization of quantum theory through functional analysis: Hilbert, von Neumann, and beyond / Klaas Landsman

Quantum mechanics is routinely used in laboratories with great success, but no consensus on its interpretation has emerged / Franck Laloë

Tony Leggett's challenge to quantum mechanics and its path to decoherence / Fábio Freitas

The Copenhagen Interpretation / Don Howard

Copenhagen and Niels Bohr / Anja Skaar Jacobsen

Grete Hermann's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Elise Crull

Instrumentation and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics / Climério Paulo da Silva Neto

Early Solvay Councils: Rhetorical lenses for quantum convergence and divergence / José G. Perillán

The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Post-War Italy's Cultural Context / Flavio Del Santo

Foundation of Quantum Physics in the Soviet Union / Jean-Philippe Martinez

Early Japanese Reactions to the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, 1927-1943 / Kenji Ito

Form and Meaning: Textbooks, Pedagogy, and the Canonical Genres of Quantum Mechanics / Josep Simon

Philosophical Issues raised by Quantum Theory and its Interpretations / Wayne C. Myrvold

Chien-Shiung Wu's Contributions to Experimental Philosophy / Indianara Silva

On how Epistemological Letters changed the foundations of quantum mechanics / Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez

Quantum interpretations and 20th century philosophy of science / Thomas Ryckman

Bohr and the epistemological lesson of quantum mechanics / Stefano Osnaghi

Making sense of the century-old scientific controversy over the quanta / Olival Freire Jr.

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Post-war Era / Kristian Camilleri

The Reception of the Forman Thesis in Modernity and Postmodernity / Paul Forman

Quantum Historiography and Cultural History: Revisiting the Forman Thesis / Alexei Kojevnikov

The co-creation of classical and modern physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics / Richard Staley

Interpretation in electrodynamics, atomic theory, and quantum mechanics / Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein

Quantization conditions, 1900-1927 / Anthony Duncan, Michel Janssen

Hidden variables / Jeffrey Bub

Pure Wave Mechanics, Relative States, and Many Worlds / Jeffrey A. Barrett

Is QBism a possible solution to the conceptual problems of quantum mechanics? / Hervé Zwirn

Agential Realism

A Relation Ontology Interpretation of Quantum Physics / Karen Barad

The Relational Interpretation / Carlo Rovelli

The Philosophy of Wholeness and the General and New Concept of OrdeR: Bohm's and Penrose's Points of View / Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Joseph Kouneiher

Spontaneous Localization Theories / Valia Allori

The Non-Individuals Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Décio Krause, Jonas R. B. Arenhart, Otávio Bueno

Modal interpretations of quantum mechanics / Dennis Dieks

A Brief Historical Perspective on the Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha, Dean Rickles, Florian J. Boge

Of weighting and Counting: Statistics and Ontology in the Old Quantum Theory / Massimiliano Badino

Einstein, Bohm and Bell: A Comedy of Errors / Jean Bricmont

The Statistical (ensemble) interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Alexander Pechenkin

Stochastic interpretations of Quantum Mechanics / Emilio Santos

Dead as a doornail? zero-point energy and Low-temperature physics in early quantum theory / Helge Kragh

The Early Debates about the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Martin Jähnert, Christoph Lehner

Foundations and Applications: The Creative Tension in the Early Development of Quantum Mechanics / Christian Joas

The Statistical Interpretation: Born, Heisenberg and von Neumann, 1926-27 / Guido Bacciagaluppi.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 12, 2022).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780191880087 (ebook) :

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