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Quantum Theory as an Emergent Phenomenon The Statistical Mechanics of Matrix Models as the Precursor of Quantum Field Theory 2013 Edition

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    Author(s)Stephen L. Adler
    PublisherCambridge
    ISBN9780521831949
    Pages238
    BindingHardback
    LanguageEnglish
    Publish YearJanuary 2013

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    Cambridge Quantum Theory as an Emergent Phenomenon The Statistical Mechanics of Matrix Models as the Precursor of Quantum Field Theory 2013 Edition by Stephen L. Adler

    Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. However, it raises conceptual issues that have perplexed physicists and philosophers of science for decades. This 2004 book develops an approach, based on the proposal that quantum theory is not a complete, final theory, but is in fact an emergent phenomenon arising from a deeper level of dynamics. The dynamics at this deeper level are taken to be an extension of classical dynamics to non-commuting matrix variables, with cyclic permutation inside a trace used as the basic calculational tool. With plausible assumptions, quantum theory is shown to emerge as the statistical thermodynamics of this underlying theory, with the canonical commutation/anticommutation relations derived from a generalized equipartition theorem. Brownian motion corrections to this thermodynamics are argued to lead to state vector reduction and to the probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory, making contact with phenomenological proposals for stochastic modifications to Schroedinger dynamics.