Understanding Quantum Mechanics / / Roland Omnès.
Here Roland Omnès offers a clear, up-to-date guide to the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics. In an area that has provoked much philosophical debate, Omnès has achieved high recognition for his Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton 1994), a book for specialists. Now the author has tr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One: The Genesis of Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 1. The Discovery of Planck's Constant
- Chapter 2. The Bohr Atom
- Chapter 3. Matrix Mechanics
- Chapter 4. Wave Mechanics
- Part Two: A Short History of Interpretation
- Chapter 5. The Copenhagen Interpretation
- Chapter 6. Interpretation after Copenhagen
- Chapter 7. The Present State of Interpretation
- Part Three: Reconstructing Interpretation
- Chapter 8. Principles
- Chapter 9. Quantum Properties
- Chapter 10. Classical Properties
- Chapter 11. Classical Dynamics
- Chapter 12. Histories
- Chapter 13. The State of a System
- Chapter 14. Consistent Histories
- Chapter 15. Complementarity
- Chapter 16. Recovering Common Sense
- Chapter 17. The Decoherence Effect
- Chapter 18. Theory of Decoherence
- Chapter 19. Decoherence and Measurements
- Chapter 20. Fundamental Questions
- Chapter 21: Measurements
- Chapter 22: Experiments
- Notes and Comments
- References
- Index