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Quantum mechanics (QM) has attracted a considerable amount of mysticism, in public opinion and even among academic researches, due to some of its conceptually puzzling features, such as the modification of reality by the observer and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 Giorgio Torrieri

The main aim of this note is to show that the formalism of multi-time equations in quantum mechanics meant to represent a manifestly Lorentz-invariant theory suffers from at least three imperfections: (1) It does not cover those physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Ali Sanayei

Since the particles such as molecules, atoms and nuclei are composite particles, it is important to recognize that physics must be invariant for the composite particles and their constituent particles, this requirement is called particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Y. Cui

An extension of the Dirac procedure for the quantization of constrained systems is necessary to address certain issues that are left open in Dirac's original proposal. These issues play an important role especially in the context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Ashtekar , Ranjeet S. Tate

We speculate on the role of relativistic versions of delayed differential equations in fundamental physics. Relativistic invariance implies that we must consider both advanced and retarded terms in the equations, so we refer to them as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-17 Michael Atiyah , Gregory W. Moore

Traditional approaches to undergraduate-level quantum mechanics require extensive mathematical preparation, preventing most students from enrolling in a quantum mechanics course until the third year of a physics major. Here we describe an…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-12-04 Jeremy Levy , Chandralekha Singh

The form factor of hadronic systems in various forms of relativistic quantum mechanics is considered. Motivated by the agreement of the nucleon ``point-form'' results with experiment, results for a toy model corresponding to the simplest…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 B. Desplanques

A qualitative but formalized representation of microstates is first established quite independently of the quantum mechanical mathematical formalism, exclusively under epistemological-operational-methodological constraints. Then, using this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Mioara Mugur-Schächter

The widespread bra-ket formalism offers valuable tools for conducting representation-free considerations in quantum theory. However, it is not without its drawbacks. In this work, we discuss these drawbacks in detail and subsequently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 V. D. Efros

The problem of observables in classical and quantum gravity is a long-standing one. It is sometimes argued that observable quantities should be diffeomorphsm invariant, following the philosophy of Dirac. We argue that diffeomorphism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-06 Manfred Requardt

Heisenberg motion equations in Quantum mechanics can be put into the Hamilton form. The difference between the commutator and its principal part, the Poisson bracket, can be accounted for exactly. Canonical transformations in Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Boris A. Kupershmidt

Quantum interfaces between polarized atomic ensembles and coherent states of light, applied recently to manipulate bipartite and multipartite entanglement, are revisited by means of a continuous-variable formalism. The explicit use of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-28 Julia Stasińska , Simone Paganelli , Carles Rodó , Anna Sanpera

The various phase spaces involved in the dynamics of parametrized nonrelativistic Hamiltonian systems are displayed by using Crnkovic and Witten's covariant canonical formalism. It is also pointed out that in Dirac's canonical formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauricio Mondragon , Merced Montesinos

Quantum Measurement problem studied in Information Theory approach of systems selfdescription which exploits the information acquisition incompleteness for the arbitrary information system. The studied model of measuring system (MS) consist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mayburov

How best to think about quantum systems under permutation invariance is a question that has received a great deal of attention in the literature. But very little attention has been paid to taking seriously the proposal that permutation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Adam Caulton

This review is devoted to the study of stationary solutions of linear and nonlinear equations from relativistic quantum mechanics, involving the Dirac operator. The solutions are found as critical points of an energy functional. Contrary to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-27 Maria J. Esteban , Mathieu Lewin , Eric séré

We argue about a conceptual approach to quantum formalism. Starting from philosophical conjectures (Platonism, Idealism and Realism) as basic ontic elements (namely: math world, data world, and state of matter), we will analyze the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Helen Lynn , Michele Caponigro

We treat here the interrelation between formal languages and those dynamical systems that can be described by cellular automata (CA). There is a well-known injective map which identifies any CA-invariant subshift with a central formal…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Troll

A simple mathematical extension of quantum theory is presented. As well as opening the possibility of alternative methods of calculation, the additional formalism implies a new physical interpretation of the standard theory by providing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Roderick Sutherland

It is proposed that the Dirac equation, as normally interpreted, incorporates intrinsic redundancies whose removal necessarily leads to an enormous gain in calculating power and physical interpretation. Streamlined versions of the Dirac…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Rowlands