Understanding Quantum Mechanics

(Hardback)

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Forming an overall picture of the field while learning about advances this book offers a guide to the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics. This 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. Itdraws upon research on the decoherence effect (related to the modern resolution of the famous Scrodinger's cat problem) and a formulation of the correspondence between quantum and particle physics. This book is aimed at students, experienced physicists, mathematicians and philosophers.

Author Bio

Roland Omns 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.