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Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
Experiments conducted in the early 20th century uncovered surprising results about the behavior of light and particles at the atomic level: the...
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics
During the years 1925–1927, quantum mechanics took shape and accumulated successes. Three persons, and not the least, addressed the question of its...
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Completely Discretized, Finite Quantum Mechanics
I propose a version of quantum mechanics featuring a discrete and finite number of states that is plausibly a model of the real world. The model is...
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A Critical Analysis of ‘Relative Facts Do Not Exist: Relational Quantum Mechanics Is Incompatible with Quantum Mechanics’ by Jay Lawrence, Marcin Markiewicz and Marek Źukowski
We discuss a recent work by J. Lawrence et al. [arxiv.org/abs/2208.11793] criticizing relational quantum mechanics (RQM) and based on a famous...
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Quantum Mechanics: The Self-assembly of Atoms
Quantum mechanics is the physical basis for the self-assembly of the Universe. We base the development of quantum mechanics on a set of axioms,...
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1 Quantum Mechanics. Algebraic Structure and States
We briefly review the basic structure of Quantum Mechanics (QM) with the aim of covering both the case of systems with a finite number of degrees of...
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An Attempt to Understand Relational Quantum Mechanics
We search for a possible mathematical formulation of some of the key ideas of the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and study their...
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On the Strangeness of Quantum Mechanics
The extravagances of quantum mechanics (QM) never fail to enrich daily the debate around natural philosophy. Entanglement, non-locality, collapse,...
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Relational Quantum Mechanics and Intuitionistic Mathematics
We propose a model of physics that blends Rovelli’s relational quantum mechanics (RQM) interpretation with the language of finite information...
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Bootstrap bounds on D0-brane quantum mechanics
We derive simple bootstrap bounds on correlation functions of the BFSS matrix theory/D0-brane quantum mechanics. The result strengthens and extends...
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Detlef Dürr’s Path from Mechanics of the Brownian Motion to the Mechanics of the Quantum World: a Personal Point of View
Some elements of the early work of Detlef Dürr are exposed. They involve a mathematical treatment of a mechanical model of the physical Brownian...
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About Teaching Quantum Mechanics in High Schools
Teaching quantum mechanics in classrooms other than those of (some) university departments, let alone speaking about it to the public, has been a...
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Contra Multos Verbos: On Scandals of Quantum Mechanics
In 2008 Nico van Kampen wrote in his letter The scandal of quantum mechanics: “The scandal is that there are still many articles, discussions and...
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3 Maximum-Likelihood Methodsin Quantum Mechanics
Maximum Likelihood estimation is a versatile tool covering wide range of applications, but its benefits are apparent particularly in the quantum...
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Fact-nets: Towards a Mathematical Framework for Relational Quantum Mechanics
The relational interpretation of quantum mechanics (RQM) has received a growing interest since its first formulation in 1996. Usually presented as an...
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How Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics can Enrich Each Other: The Case of the Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation
In the literature on the interpretation of quantum mechanics, not many works attempt to adopt a proactive perspective aimed at seeing how different...
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Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Recently there has been a great deal of interest in tabletop experiments intended to exhibit the quantum nature of gravity by demonstrating that it...
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Whence Deep Realism for Everettian Quantum Mechanics?
‘Shallow’ and ‘deep’ versions of scientific realism may be distinguished as follows: the shallow realist is satisfied with belief in the existence of...
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Semi-empirical Quantum Mechanics Computer Simulations
In this chapter, we focus on the semi-empirical quantum mechanics approaches and their use in computer simulations.
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The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: Arriving of the Photon Concept
Before the twentieth century, the concepts of particleParticle and waveWave were entirely independent. The particleParticle is a localized point...