Offers a guide to the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics. This book presents the Copenhagen interpretation, showing its logical consistency and completeness. The problem of measurement is a major area of inquiry, with the author surveying its history from Planck to Heisenberg before describing the consistent-histories interpretation. Num Pages: 328 pages, 27 line illus. BIC Classification: PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 638. . 1999. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Titel: Understanding Quantum Mechanics
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0691004358
ISBN-13: 9780691004358
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New

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Here Roland Omn�s offers a clear, up-to-date guide to the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics. In an area that has provoked much philosophical debate, Omn�s has achieved high recognition for his Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton 1994), a book for specialists. Now the author has transformed his own theory into a short and readable text that enables beginning students and experienced physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers to form a comprehensive picture of the field while learning about the most recent advances.

This new book presents a more streamlined version of the Copenhagen interpretation, showing its logical consistency and completeness. The problem of measurement is a major area of inquiry, with the author surveying its history from Planck to Heisenberg before describing the consistent-histories interpretation. He draws upon the most recent research on the decoherence effect (related to the modern resolution of the famous Schr�dinger's cat problem) and an exact formulation of the correspondence between quantum and particle physics (implying a derivation of classical determinism from quantum probabilism).

Interpretation is organized with the help of a universal and sound language using so-called consistent histories. As a language and a method, it can now be shown to be free of ambiguity and it makes interpretation much clearer and closer to common sense.

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Roland Omn�s is Professor of Physics at the University of Paris XI. His books include Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science (see p. 22 in this catalog), The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton), L'Univers et ses Metamorphoses, and Introduction to Particle Physics.

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