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The physical interpretation of daseinisation

Quantum Physics 2013-12-06 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We provide a conceptual discussion and physical interpretation of some of the quite abstract constructions in the topos approach to physics. In particular, the daseinisation process for projection operators and for self-adjoint operators is motivated and explained from a physical point of view. Daseinisation provides the bridge between the standard Hilbert space formalism of quantum theory and the new topos-based approach to quantum theory. As an illustration, we will show all constructions explicitly for a three-dimensional Hilbert space and the spin-z operator of a spin-1 particle. This article is a companion to the article by Isham in the same volume.

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@article{arxiv.1004.3573,
  title  = {The physical interpretation of daseinisation},
  author = {Andreas Doering},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3573},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

39 pages; to appear in "Deep Beauty", ed. Hans Halvorson, Cambridge University Press (2010)

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