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From dualism to unity in quantum physics / Alfred Lande.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Description: xvi, 114 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781316509760
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.12 23 L254
Contents:
Introduction; 1. Causality, chance, continuity; 2. States, observables, probabilities; 3. The metric law of probabilities; 4. Quantum dynamics; 5. Quantum fact and fiction; Retrospect. From dualism to unity, from positivism to realism; Appendix 1. Survey of elementary postulates; Appendix 2. Two problems of uniqueness.
Summary: This book challenges the view that the principles of wave-particle duality, complementarity and uncertainty are fundamental to micro-mechanics. Instead, the text sets out to reduce dualistic quantum phenomena to still more elementary general principles, such as symmetry, invariance and continuity. It thus develops the Bohr-Heisenberg account, resting on Born's statistical interpretation, into a unitary theory. Appendices are included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in quantum physics and the history of science.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction;
1. Causality, chance, continuity;
2. States, observables, probabilities;
3. The metric law of probabilities;
4. Quantum dynamics;
5. Quantum fact and fiction; Retrospect. From dualism to unity, from positivism to realism;
Appendix 1. Survey of elementary postulates;
Appendix 2. Two problems of uniqueness.

This book challenges the view that the principles of wave-particle duality, complementarity and uncertainty are fundamental to micro-mechanics. Instead, the text sets out to reduce dualistic quantum phenomena to still more elementary general principles, such as symmetry, invariance and continuity. It thus develops the Bohr-Heisenberg account, resting on Born's statistical interpretation, into a unitary theory. Appendices are included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in quantum physics and the history of science.

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