Why engineers are right to avoid the quantum reality offered by the orthodox theory?

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العنوان: Why engineers are right to avoid the quantum reality offered by the orthodox theory?
المؤلفون: Oriols, X., Ferry, D. K.
المصدر: in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, no. 6, pp. 955-961, June 2021
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantum Physics
الوصف: A proper knowledge of the reality of a physical theory is important to get an understanding of empirical phenomena. Despite its extraordinary predictive successes, the orthodox (also known as the Copenhagen) theory provides an indigestible definition of quantum reality: objects (such as electrons) become part of a nebulous many-particle wave function with no properties at all, unless the property is explicitly measured. To make matters worse, orthodox theory does not define measurements in a clear way. This view of reality is foreign to most modern engineers who assume that quantum objects, like classical objects, always have real properties, independent of any measurement. Despite being contrary to the orthodox theory, the intuition of engineers is not in conflict with other quantum theories, where the observer plays no fundamental role. Good quantum intuition needs to be based on a correct knowledge of the fundamental elements of the quantum theory that is being used. We argue that engineers are actually led to the natural quantum reality offered by these alternative approaches.
Comment: 6 pages and 2 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/jproc.2021.3067110
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06851
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2402.06851
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1109/jproc.2021.3067110