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A notion of quantization is proposed that is independent of the original statistical interpretation of the distribution of energy in a photon gas or of the quantization of angular momentum in hydrogen atom. Such a procedutre implies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George B. Cvijanovich

Any account of the emergence of classicality from quantum theory must address the fact that the quantum operators representing positions and momenta do not commute, whereas their classical counterparts suffer no such restrictions. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. J. Halliwell

Quantum mechanics is usually presented starting from a series of postulates about the mathematical framework. In this work we show that those same postulates can be derived by assuming that measurements are discrete interactions: that is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 Gabriele Carcassi

Having started with the general formulation of the quantum theory of the real scalar field (QFT) in the general Riemannian space--time $ V_{1,3} $, the general--covariant quasinonrelativistic quantum mechanics of a point-like spinless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

All elementary particles in nature can be classified as fermions with half-integer spin and bosons with integer spin. Within quantum electrodynamics (QED), even though the spin of the Dirac particle is well defined, there exist open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Li-Ping Yang , Farhad. Khosravi , Zubin Jacob

Quantum mechanics of photons is derived from the theory of representations of the Poincar\'e group developed by Wigner. This theory places helicity as the most fundamental property; angular momentum and polarization are secondary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

The second-order moment quantum fluctuations or uncertainties are mass-dependent, and the incompatibility between the quantum uncertainty principle and the equivalence principle is at the second-order moment (variation) level, but not the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 M. J. Luo

Although quantum mechanics is one of our most successful physical theories, there has been a long-standing debate about the interpretation of the wave function---the central object of the theory. Two prominent views are that (i) it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Roger Colbeck , Renato Renner

It is shown that neither the wave picture nor the ordinary particle picture offers a satisfactory explanation of the double-slit experiment. The Physicists who have been successful in formulating theories in the Newtonian Paradigm with its…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 Nalin de Silva

We re-use some original ideas of de~Broglie, Schr\"odiger, Dirac and Feynman to revise the ensemble interpretation of wave function in quantum mechanics. To this end we introduce coherence (auto-concordance) of ensembles of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Vladimir V. Kisil

Some aspects of the interpretation of quantum theory are discussed. It is emphasized that quantum theory is formulated in the Cartesian coordinate system; in other coordinates the result obtained with the help of the Hamiltonian formalism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Evgeni A. Solov'ev

A quantum positioning system (QPS) is proposed that can provide a user with all four of his space-time coordinates. The user must carry a corner cube reflector, a good clock, and have a two-way classical channel of communication with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas B. Bahder

Classical matching theory can be defined in terms of matrices with nonnegative entries. The notion of Positive operator, central in Quantum Theory, is a natural generalization of matrices with nonnegative entries. Based on this point of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid Gurvits

.We expound an alternative to the Copenhagen interpretation of the formalism of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. The basic difference is that the new interpretation is formulated in the language of epistemological realism. The {\psi}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Arthur Jabs

The relativistic phase-space representation by means of the usual position and momentum operators for a class of observables with Weyl symbols independent of charge variable (i.e. with any combination of position and momentum) is proposed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. I. Lev , A. A. Semenov , C. V. Usenko

In contrast to wave functions in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics interpreted as probability amplitudes, wave functions in relativistic quantum mechanics have generalized meanings such as charge-density amplitudes, energy-density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Yong Wang , Cai-Dong Xiong , Ole Keller

A brief review is given of the present state of an approach to consistency between basic quantum mechanics and a unique macroscopic reality, with no assumption of branching in the state of the universe. The main new idea consists in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Roland Omnes

The application of principles of Quantum Mechanics in areas outside of physics has been getting increasing attention in the scientific community in an emergent discipline called Quantum Cognition. These principles have been applied to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Catarina Moreira , Andreas Wichert

Quantum state diffusion shows how stochastic interaction with the environment may cause localisation of the wave-function, and thereby demonstrates that quantum mechanics need not invoke a separate axiom of measurement to explain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Dunstan

According to symmetrization postulate for a system of identical particles, wave function has to be completely symmetric or completely anti-symmetric. In this paper we want to mathematically justify this postulate ignoring the spin part of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Diganta Parai , Nikhilesh Maity