Nino Zanghi
(University of Genova)
24/03/2015, 14:30
Quantum philosophy, a peculiar twentieth century malady, is responsible for most of the conceptual muddle plaguing the foundations of quantum physics. When this philosophy is eschewed, one naturally arrives at Bohmian mechanics, which is what emerges from Schro ̈dinger’s equation for a nonrelativistic system of particles when we merely insist that “particles” means particles.
Mohammad Bahrami
(University of Trieste)
24/03/2015, 15:15
Physics at the quantum-classical border is one of the crucial fields of today’s research, both theoretical and experimental. One of the challenging questions is to understand if, and under which conditions, quantum linearity fails when the size and complexity of the system increases [1,2]. The exploration of this question has substantial consequences because if the quantum superposition...
Sören Petrat
(IST - Vienna)
24/03/2015, 16:30
In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, a wave function depends on one time variable. A suitable relativistic generalization is a wave function that depends on a separate time variable for each particle, i.e., for N particles, it depends on N space-time points. Such a function is called a multi-time wave function. The study of these wave functions and their evolution equations is interesting...
Andrea Smirne
(University of Ulm)
24/03/2015, 17:15
Collapse models explain the absence of quantum superpositions at the macroscopic scale, while giving practically the same predictions as quantum mechanics for microscopic systems [1,2,3]. A well-known problem of the original models is the steady and unlimited increase of the energy induced by the collapse noise. In this talk, I discuss two recently introduced collapse models [4,5], which...