Description: An Axiomatic Basis for Quantum Mechanics Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Volume 2 Quantum Mechanics and Macrosystems Author(s): Kurt Just, Gunther Ludwig Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K ISBN-13: 9783642718991, 978-3642718991 Synopsis In the first volume we based quantum mechanics on the objective description of macroscopic devices. The further development of the quantum mechanics of atoms, molecules, and collision processes has been described in [2]. In this context also the usual description of composite systems by tensor products of Hilbert spaces has been introduced. This method can be formally extrapolated to systems composed of "many" ele mentary systems, even arbitrarily many. One formerly had the opinion that this "extrapolated quantum mechanics" is a more comprehensive theory than the objec tive description of macrosystems, an opinion which generated unsurmountable diffi culties for explaining the measuring process. With respect to our foundation of quan tum mechanics on macroscopic objectivity, this opinion would mean that our founda tion is no foundation at all. The task of this second volume is to attain a compatibility between the objective description of macrosystems and an extrapolated quantum mechanics. Thus in X we establish the "statistical mechanics" of macrosystems as a theory more compre hensive than an extrapolated quantum mechanics. On this basis we solve the problem of the measuring process in quantum mechan ics, in XI developing a theory which describes the measuring process as an interaction between microsystems and a macroscopic device. This theory also allows to calculate "in principle" the observable measured by a device. Neither an incorporation of consciousness nor a mysterious imagination such as "collapsing" wave packets are necessary.
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Book Title: An Axiomatic Basis for Quantum Mechanics
Number of Pages: 244 Pages
Publication Name: An Axiomatic Basis for Quantum Mechanics: Volume 2 Quantum Mechanics and Macrosystems
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin AND Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. KG
Item Height: 244 mm
Subject: Physics
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 448 g
Author: Gunther Ludwig
Item Width: 170 mm
Format: Paperback
