Why do we need quantum theory?
Creators
- 1. Institute of Nuclear and Physical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava (Slovakia)
- 2. Institute of Electronics and Photonics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava (Slovakia)
Description
A good starting point of this consideration can be a question 'Why do we need quantum theory?'. What is wrong with just using the methods of classical mechanics or electrodynamics. Although there are a number of arguments for quantum theory, many people still accept the quantum theory as an intellectual achievement having many arguments for own truth. Many of them are based on superstition of elegance of classical theory. As said Ludwig Boltzmann 'Elegance should be left to shoemakers and tailors, we should keep the law of mathematics'. The aim of this paper is to discuss some arguments for quantum mechanics which are mostly technical and maybe mathematical rigorous. Whereas some mathematics overstate the beginning let's are start with a little theory. In this discussion we will use the interaction representation (also known as the Dirac picture) which is an interactive picture between the Schroedinger and the Heisenberg picture. Although it sounds ominously, it is a very effective tool in cases where the influences of disturbance simultaneously changing both the wave function and observed variable. In this case the solution is to use with the aim to express many-body solution of the Schroedinger equation. The interaction representation constructs the solution of Schroedinger equation as the solution of the free particle problem plus some unknown interaction part. In our discussion we will use a hypothetical system (not very far from reality) which contains a mixture of dissipative and other (yet unknown) subsystems with very different qualities. It has been shown that right in this configuration the interaction representation is very useful. (authors)
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Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Slovak University of Technology
- Imprint Place
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- ISBN
- 978-80-227-4179-8
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings 20. International Conference on Applied Physics of Condensed Matter
- Imprint Pagination
- 217 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 15-19
- Report number
- INIS-SK--2017-034
Conference
- Title
- 20. international conference on applied physics of condensed matter
- Acronym
- APCOM 2014
- Dates
- 25-28 Jun 2014
- Place
- Strbske Pleso (Slovakia)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Slovakia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Slovakia
- INIS RN
- 48060962
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
- Descriptors DEC
- DATA; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICS; NUMERICAL DATA; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Project VEGA-1/0712/12
- Notes
- 2 figs., 1 refs. Imprint:Published also on CDROM 31.4 MBytes in PDF format