Bohmian Mechanics The Physics and Mathematics of Quantum Theory /

• Main Authors: Teufel, Stefan (Author), Dürr, Detlef (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Probabilities.; Quantum physics.; Atoms.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Quantum Physics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.

Bohmian Mechanics was formulated in 1952 by David Bohm as a complete theory of quantum phenomena based on a particle picture. It was promoted some decades later by John S. Bell, who, intrigued by the manifestly nonlocal structure of the theory, was led to his famous Bell's inequalities. Experim...

Table of Contents:

• Classical Physics
• Symmetry
• Chance
• Brownian motion
• The Beginning of Quantum Theory
• Schr#x00F6;dinger#x2019;s Equation
• Bohmian Mechanics
• The Macroscopic World
• Nonlocality
• The Wave Function and Quantum Equilibrium
• From Physics to Mathematics
• Hilbert Space
• The Schr#x00F6;dinger Operator
• Measures and Operators
• Bohmian Mechanics on Scattering Theory
• Epilogue.