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...

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1. Verfasser: Adler, Stephen L. 1939- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, U.K. [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 2004
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 225 S.
ISBN:0521831946

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