Quantum Mechanical Reality: Entanglement and Decoherence
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12148v1
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 19:08:00 GMT
- Title: Quantum Mechanical Reality: Entanglement and Decoherence
- Authors: Avijit Lahiri
- Abstract summary: We look into the ontology of quantum theory as distinct from that of the classical theory in the sciences.
Within this framework, theories are conceptual constructs applying to models generated in the phenomenal world within limited contexts.
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- Abstract: We look into the ontology of quantum theory as distinct from that of the
classical theory in the sciences, following a broadly Kantian tradition and
distinguishing between the noumenal and phenomenal realities where the former
is independent of our perception while the latter is assembled from the former
by means of fragmentary bits of interpretation. Within this framework, theories
are conceptual constructs applying to models generated in the phenomenal world
within limited contexts.The ontology of quantum theory principally rests on the
view that entities in the world are pervasively correlated with one another not
by means of probabilities as in the case of the classical theory, but by means
of probability amplitudes involving finely tuned phases of quantum mechanical
states (entanglement). The quantum correlations are shared globally in the
process of environment-induced decoherence whereby locally generated
correlations are removed, the removal being especially manifest in the case of
systems that appear as classical ones, in which case the process is almost
instantaneous, being, in all likelihood, driven by field fluctuations in the
Planck regime. This points to factors of an unknown nature determining its
finest details, since Planck scale physics remains an obscure terrain. In other
words, the present day quantum theory holds within a limited context set by the
Planck scale.
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