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Many, perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen, single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles, but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties. This lingering dichotomy of purpose for a major physical discipline has much shrouded further insights into the foundations of quantum theory. Quantum Reprogramming resolves this long-standing dichotomy by examining the mutual relation between single systems and ensembles, assigning each its own tools for treating the subject at hand: i.e., Schrödinger-Dirac methods for ensembles versus period integrals for single systems. A unified treatment of integer and fractional quantum Hall effects and a finite description of the electron's anomalies are mentioned as measures of justification for the chosen procedure of resolving an old-time dichotomy. The methods of presentation are, in part, elementary, with repetitive references needed to delineate differences with respect to standard methods. The parts on period integrals are developed with a perspective on elementary methods in physics, thus leading up to some standard results of de Rham theory and algebraic topology. Audience: Students of physics, mathematics, philosophers as well as outsiders with a general interest in the conceptual development of physics will find useful reading in these pages, which will stimulate further inquiry and study.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

• Full title: Quantum Reprogramming
• Subtitle: Ensembles and Single Systems: A Two-Tier Approach to Quantum Mechanics
• Author: E. J. Post
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 322
• EAN: 9780792335658
• ISBN: 0792335651
• ID: 05250274
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 650 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 167 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 1995

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