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Quantum theory as an emergent phenomenon : the statistical mechanics of matrix models as the precursor of quantum field theory /
"This book develops a new approach, based on the proposal that quantum theory is not a complete, final theory, but is in fact an emergent phenomenon arising from a deeper level of dynamics. The dynamics at this deeper level is taken to be an extension of classical dynamics to non-commuting matr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book develops a new approach, based on the proposal that quantum theory is not a complete, final theory, but is in fact an emergent phenomenon arising from a deeper level of dynamics. The dynamics at this deeper level is taken to be an extension of classical dynamics to non-commuting matrix variables, with cyclic permutation inside a trace used as the basic calculational tool. With plausible assumptions, quantum theory is shown to emerge as the statistical thermodynamics of this underlying theory, with the canonical commutation - anticommutation relations derived from a generalized equipartition theorem. Brownian motion corrections to this thermodynamics are argued to lead to state vector reduction and to the probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory, making contact with recent phenomenological proposals for stochastic modifications to Schrodinger dynamics."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511216556 9780511216558 9780511535277 0511535279 9780511207600 0511207603 1280516100 9781280516108 1107148618 9781107148611 9786610516100 6610516103 0511214766 9780511214769 0511315333 9780511315336 |