Quantum Reprogramming: Ensembles and Single Systems: A Two-Tier Approach to Quantum Mechanics: 181 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 181)

E. J. Post

ISBN 10: 0792335651 / ISBN 13: 9780792335658

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quantum Reprogramming: Ensembles and Single Systems: A Two-Tier Approach to Quantum Mechanics: 181 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 181)
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792335651
• ISBN 13: 9780792335658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 2 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

Many, perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen, single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles, but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties. This lingering dichotomy of purpose for a major physical discipline has much shrouded further insights into the foundations of quantum theory.
Quantum Reprogramming resolves this long-standing dichotomy by examining the mutual relation between single systems and ensembles, assigning each its own tools for treating the subject at hand: i.e., Schrödinger-Dirac methods for ensembles versus period integrals for single systems.
A unified treatment of integer and fractional quantum Hall effects and a finite description of the electron's anomalies are mentioned as measures of justification for the chosen procedure of resolving an old-time dichotomy. The methods of presentation are, in part, elementary, with repetitive references needed to delineate differences with respect to standard methods. The parts on period integrals are developed with a perspective on elementary methods in physics, thus leading up to some standard results of de Rham theory and algebraic topology.
Audience: Students of physics, mathematics, philosophers as well as outsiders with a general interest in the conceptual development of physics will find useful reading in these pages, which will stimulate further inquiry and study.