Quantum Potential: Physics, Geometry and Algebra

1. Front Matter

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2. A Short Survey on a “Strange” Potential

   • Ignazio Licata, Davide Fiscaletti

   Pages 1-47

3. The Quantum Potential in Particle and Field Theory Models

   • Ignazio Licata, Davide Fiscaletti

   Pages 49-68

4. The Quantum Potential in Gravity and Cosmology

   • Ignazio Licata, Davide Fiscaletti

   Pages 69-92

5. Entropy, Information, Chaos and the Quantum Potential

   • Ignazio Licata, Davide Fiscaletti

   Pages 93-106

Recently the interest in Bohm realist interpretation of quantum mechanics has grown. The important advantage of this approach lies in the possibility to introduce non-locality ab initio, and not as an “unexpected host”. In this book the authors give a detailed analysis of quantum potential, the non-locality term and its role in quantum cosmology and information. The different approaches to the quantum potential are analysed, starting from the original attempt to introduce a realism of particles trajectories (influenced by de Broglie’s pilot wave) to the recent dynamic interpretation provided by Goldstein, Durr, Tumulka and Zanghì, and the geometrodynamic picture, with suggestion about quantum gravity. Finally we focus on the algebraic reading of Hiley and Birkbeck school, that analyse the meaning of the non-local structure of the world, bringing important consequences for the space, time and information concepts.

• Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
• Kak’s Approach to Quantum Information
• Non-Commutative Quantum Geometry
• Non-locality
• Quantum Fields and Cosmology
• Quantum Information
• Quantum Potential
• Quantum Potential in Curved Space Field Theory
• Quantum potential in particle and field theory models
• The Algebraic Approach to Non-Locality
• The Geometric Approach to Quantum Information
• The Pilot Wave Theory
• The quantum potential in Bohm’s approach to the Dirac
• Von Neumann’s Entropy and

• Institute for Scientific Methodology, Palermo, Italy

  Ignazio Licata, Davide Fiscaletti

Ignazio Licata is an Italian theoretical physicist, professor  and scientific director of the Institute for Scientific Methodology, Italy. He worked on quantum field theory, interpretation of quantum mechanics, and  recently quantum cosmology. His further topics of research include the foundation of quantum mechanics, space-time at Planck scale, the group  approach in quantum cosmology, systems theory, non-linear dynamics, as well  as computation in physical, biological and cognitive systems (logical  openness, sub and super Turing systems). Licata has developed a new approach to quantum cosmology ("Archaic Universe") based on de Sitter  invariant special relativity.

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