Ensembles on configuration space : classical, quantum, and beyond

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Label

Ensembles on configuration space : classical, quantum, and beyond

Title remainder

classical, quantum, and beyond

Statement of responsibility

Michael J. W. Hall, Marcel Reginatto

Creator

• Hall, Michael J. W

Contributor

• Reginatto, Marcel

Author

• Hall, Michael J. W
• Reginatto, Marcel

Subject

• Configuration space

Language

eng

Summary

This book describes a promising approach to problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics, including the measurement problem. The dynamics of ensembles on configuration space is shown here to be a valuable tool for unifying the formalisms of classical and quantum mechanics, for deriving and extending the latter in various ways, and for addressing the quantum measurement problem. A description of physical systems by means of ensembles on configuration space can be introduced at a very fundamental level: the basic building blocks are a configuration space, probabilities, and Hamiltonian equations of motion for the probabilities. The formalism can describe both classical and quantum systems, and their thermodynamics, with the main difference being the choice of ensemble Hamiltonian. Furthermore, there is a natural way of introducing ensemble Hamiltonians that describe the evolution of hybrid systems; i.e., interacting systems that have distinct classical and quantum sectors, allowing for consistent descriptions of quantum systems interacting with classical measurement devices and quantum matter fields interacting gravitationally with a classical spacetime

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Springer
• Fundamental theories of physics, v. 184

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

516.3/5

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QA607

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Fundamental theories of physics,

Series volume

volume 184