ENGLISH

Statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics

By l e ballentine

Book information

Publisher
simon fraser university
Year
1970
ASIN
B003VG0172
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
688 kB (704344 bytes)
Series
classic publication
Pages
24\24
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Физика;Квантовая физика;Научные статьи и сборники

Description

The Statistical Interpretation of quantum theory is formulated for the purpose of providing a sound interpretation using a minimum of assumptions. Several arguments are advanced in favor of considering the quantum state description to apply only to an ensemble of similarily prepared systems, rather than supposing, as is often done, that it exhaustively represents an individual physical system. Most of the problems associated with the quantum theory of measurement are artifacts of the attempt to maintain the latter interpretation. The introduction of hidden variables to determine the outcome of individual events is fully compatible with the statistical predictions of quantum theory. However, a theorem due to Bell seems to require that any such hidden-variable theory which reproduces all of quantum mechanics exactly (i.e., not merely in some limiting case) must possess a rather pathological character with respect to correlated, but spacially separated, systems.

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