Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics? 2nd Edition by Franck Laloë (PDF)

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Quantum mechanics impacts on many areas of physics from pure theory to applications. However it is difficult to interpret, and philosophical contradictions and counter-intuitive results are apparent at a fundamental level. This book presents current understanding of the theory, providing a historical introduction and discussing many of its interpretations. Fully revised from the first edition, this book contains state-of-the-art research including loophole-free experimental Bell test, and theorems on the reality of the wave function including the PBR theorem, and a new section on quantum simulation. More interpretations are now included, and these are described and compared, including discussion of their successes and difficulties. Other sections have been expanded, including quantum error correction codes and the reference section. It is ideal for researchers in physics and maths, and philosophers of science interested in quantum physics and its foundations.

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⭐I’ve only read the first four chapters so far. I find the writing to be clear, well-organized, and sufficiently comprehensive of various schools of thought. Fortunately for me — for whom understanding the meaning of quantum mechanics is just a hobby — it doesn’t contain a lot of advanced math, so I can understand most of what I’ve read.A minor exception is section 4.3.2 “Is Quantum Mechanics Itself Local? Counterfactuality” which uses the unusual phrases “quantum mechanics itself” and “quantum mechanics in itself” several times without explaining what’s meant by “in itself.” Hopefully there will be a third edition that will include at least one example to explain that phrase, because I would like to know more about whether quantum mechanics is nonlocal. (Perhaps what the author means is a situation such as light traveling as a wave or wave packet, which is physically distributed in space until the instant it’s absorbed or annihilated at a point; the absorption/annihilation of the distributed wave would presumably require a nonlocal — faster than light — transfer of some of the wave from far away to the point of absorption/annihilation. One way to describe this would be to say that the light wave is “self-entangled” so that its absorption or annihilation at a point correlates perfectly with non-absorption/non-annihilation everywhere else.)

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