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Irreversibility in Quantum Mechanics and Measurement

By: GRIGOLINI P

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Hardcover | 1 December 1992

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The subject of this book emerged from a series of lectures that the author gave at the Department of Physics of the University of North Texas during the 1992 Spring Semester, and reflects the vivacious discussions that he has been having with the students and the co-workers attending this course. The main conclusion of these discussions was that the major tenet of the "conservative" physicists, that classical physics must be recovered from quantum mechanics by adopting the statistical perspective of Gibbs, implying by necessity a Gibbs ensemble of Universes as well as a Gibbs ensemble of observers, is not satisfactory. It is actually as unsatisfactory as the dominant approaches to irreversibility. The book examines the current approaches to irreversibility, in classical and quantum physics, and shows that an objective theory of irreversibility does not exist yet, and that all the current theories of irreversibility share with quantum mechanics elements of subjectivity, making crucial the role played by the observer. In addition to the traditional quantum mechanical paradoxes, concerning the quantum theory of measurement, the book also discusses the new difficulties that the physics of chaos is causing to the widely accepted correspondence principle, and suggests that the Boltzmann dream, the dream that the fracture between dynamics and thermodynamics might be healed, cannot become true within the framework of the current physics, and that the establishment of a new physics is necessary for that ambitious purpose to be achieved.

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"The new book by Grigolini summarizes the state of the art in the field, but on the other hand it presents also an independent fresh approach to the whole problem. The main conclusion derived by the author is, that classical mechanics cannot be recovered from quantum mechanics by simple approximation. Their relation is much more complicated ... The book is warmly recommended to readers in physics or chemistry and to graduate students but also to researchers working in that field." W Ebeling Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 1995

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Non-Fiction Science Physics Quantum Physics & Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory Mathematics Applied Mathematics Chaos Theory Engineering & Technology Biochemical Engineering Booktopia Publisher Services World Scientific Publishing

Preface
The Conventional Theory of Measurement	p. 1
Towards the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	p. 24
The Influence of Environment	p. 76
Nonlinear Relaxation	p. 174
Chaos and Statistical Mechanics	p. 235
Quantum Chaos and Theory of Measurement	p. 323
Conclusions	p. 388
Subject Index	p. 404
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