Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Probabilistic foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information

We discuss foundation of quantum mechanics (interpretations, superposition, principle of complementarity, locality, hidden variables) and quantum information theory. keywords: Foundations, contextual probability, quantum information, quantum parallelism, nonlocality

Progress in Quantum Foundations

We present a review of the current state of affairs in the foundations of quantum meachanics. After introducing the axioms of quantum theory, the first part of the report examines in detail the trials of interpreting quantum mechanics in a realist way. The main focus of the second half of the review is the attempt to describe quantum mechanics within a larger space of hypothetical theories. A p...

Time and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Implications of quantum theory in the foundations of statistical mechanics

An investigation is made into how the foundations of statistical mechanics are affected once we treat classical mechanics as an approximation to quantum mechanics in certain domains rather than as a theory in its own right; this is necessary if we are to understand statistical-mechanical systems in our own world. Relevant structural and dynamical differences are identified between classical and...

Quantum State Diffusion: from Foundations to Applications

Deeper insight leads to better practice. We show how the study of the foundations of quantum mechanics has led to new pictures of open systems and to a method of computation which is practical and can be used where others cannot. We illustrate the power of the new method by a series of pictures that show the emergence of classical features in a quantum world. We compare the development of quant...

Statistical-Realism versus Wave-Realism in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Different realistic attitudes towards wavefunctions and quantum states are as old as quantum theory itself. Recently Pusey, Barret and Rudolph (PBR) on the one hand, and Auletta and Tarozzi (AT) on the other, have proposed new interesting arguments in favor of a broad realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics that can be considered the modern heir to some views held by the fathers of quantu...