Ensembles on Configuration Space - Classical, Quantum, and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Fundamental Theories of Physics, 184
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Michael J. W. Hall • Marcel Reginatto
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-34164-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Statistical physics Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-34164-2
Barcode:	9783319341644

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