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Physics and the Nature of Reality

Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr

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Editors:
  1. Angelo Bassi

    1. Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  2. Sheldon Goldstein

    1. Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

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  3. Roderich Tumulka

    1. Fachbereich Mathematik, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  4. Nino Zanghì

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy

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  • Provides a rigorous perspective on quantum foundations
  • Presents the state of the art in Bohmian Mechanics
  • Represents the scientific legacy of a passionate intellectual

Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 215)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  3. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Why Bohm and Only Bohm?

      • Jean Bricmont
      Pages 37-49

    3. The Prodigy That Time Forgot: The Incredible and Untold Story of John von Newton

      • Craig Callender
      Pages 51-61

    4. Bohmian Collapse

      • Isaac Wilhelm
      Pages 63-70

    5. Generic Contextuality

      • Travis Norsen
      Pages 71-85

    6. The Wentaculus: Density Matrix Realism Meets the Arrow of Time

      • Eddy Keming Chen
      Pages 87-104

    7. Bohmian Mechanics as a Practical Tool

      • Xabier Oianguren-Asua, Carlos F. Destefani, Matteo Villani, David K. Ferry, Xavier Oriols
      Pages 105-123

    8. Eigenstates in the Many Interacting Worlds Approach: Focus on 2D Ground States

      • Hannes Herrmann, Michael J. W. Hall, Howard M. Wiseman, Dirk-André Deckert
      Pages 125-140

    9. Are There Observational Differences Between Bohmian Mechanics and Other Interpretations?

      • Lev Vaidman
      Pages 141-150

    10. A Tentative Completion of Quantum Mechanics

      • Jürg Fröhlich, Zhou Gang, Alessandro Pizzo
      Pages 151-165

  4. Relativistic Quantum Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Space–Time–Matter

      • Christian Beck
      Pages 169-185

    3. Detection Time of Dirac Particles in One Space Dimension

      • A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Stephanie Zhou
      Pages 187-201

    4. The Bohmian Solution to the Problem of Time

      • Ward Struyve
      Pages 203-215

    5. Some Often Loosely Used Concepts with Potentially Problematic Implications

      • Daniel Sudarsky
      Pages 217-230
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About this book

This volume commemorates the scientific contributions of Detlef Dürr (1951–2021) to foundational questions of physics. It presents new contributions from his former students, collaborators, and colleagues about their current research on topics inspired or influenced by Dürr. These topics are drawn from physics, mathematics, and philosophy of nature, and concern interpretations of quantum theory, new developments of Bohmian mechanics, the role of typicality, quantum physics in relativistic space-time, classical and quantum electrodynamics, and statistical mechanics. The volume thus also gives a snapshot of present research in the foundations of physics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Angelo Bassi

  • Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

    Sheldon Goldstein

  • Fachbereich Mathematik, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Roderich Tumulka

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy

    Nino Zanghì

About the editors

Angelo Bassi graduated in Physics at the University of Trieste, where in 2001 he received his PhD. He worked at the ICTP in Trieste, and later in Munich, Germany. He is now full professor at the University of Trieste. His research concerns the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He is the author of 150 publications in international journals, invited speaker at over 70 international conferences, organizer of 30 conferences. He is the principal investigator of numerous national and international research projects. He was interviewed by New York Times Magazine with a dedicated profile (June 2020) and other national and international scientific magazines and newspapers.
Sheldon Goldstein: Born in 1947 in Augusta, Georgia, USA, Sheldon Goldstein is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a mathematician and theoretical physicist and is most closely associated with the mathematicalphysics group in the mathematics department at Rutgers. His research has primarily been concerned with the foundations of statistical mechanics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. The latter research is more precisely focused on finding conceptually and physically clear versions of quantum mechanics, the best example of which is Bohmian mechanics. He has published more than 160 articles on these and related subjects.

Roderich Tumulka was born in 1972 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 2001, taught at Rutgers University (USA) in 2007—2016, and has since taught at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Germany). His field of research is mathematical physics, particularly the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and quantum statistical mechanics. He authored more than 70 articles in research journals.

Nino Zanghì: Born in 1957, Nino Zanghì obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1987. Presently, he holds the position of Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Genoa, Italy. His scientific pursuits revolve around investigating the mathematical and conceptual foundations of statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, specifically delving into the precise formulation of quantum mechanics known as Bohmian mechanics. More recently, his interests have expanded to encompass the fundamental principles that underlie the field of cosmology. He is the author of monographs in both Italian and English and has contributed over 100 articles to the research on these topics.

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