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Quantum jumps and attractors of the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger equations

Mathematical Physics 2021-04-23 v8 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

Our goal is the discussion of the problem of mathematical interpretation of basic postulates (or `principles') of Quantum Mechanics: transitions to quantum stationary orbits, the wave-particle duality, and the probabilistic interpretation, in the context of semiclassical self-consistent Maxwell--Schr\"odinger equations. We discuss possible relations of these postulates to the theory of attractors of Hamiltonian nonlinear PDEs and to a new general mathematical conjecture on global attractors of G-invariant nonlinear Hamiltonian partial differential equations with a Lie symmetry group G. This conjecture is inspired by our results on global attractors of nonlinear Hamiltonian PDEs obtained since 1990 for a list of model equations with three basic symmetry groups: the trivial group, the group of translations, and the unitary group U(1). We present sketchy these results.

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@article{arxiv.1907.04297,
  title  = {Quantum jumps and attractors of the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger equations},
  author = {Alexander Komech},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.04297},
  year   = {2021}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures