The Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Making Sense of the Quantum World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 February 2026
- ISBN 9780198951384
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 253x175x22 mm
- Weight 728 g
- Language English 681
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Short description:
This book introduces a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation (MHI), which attempts to solve all the quantum puzzles from a unified perspective. The book will be of interest to physicists and philosophers.
MoreLong description:
Non-relativistic quantum mechanics is a physical theory that, despite its exceptional empirical success, generated innumerable debates about its meaning since its first formulations in the early twentieth century. Both physicists and philosophers realized that the theory challenged many basic assumptions of traditional science and philosophy. Therefore, different interpretations were formulated to meet these challenges.
This book introduces a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation (MHI), which attempts to solve all the quantum puzzles from a unified perspective. It is hoped that this interpretation will be both reasonable for physicists in their daily practice and interesting for philosophers engaged in the metaphysics of science.
This is a realist, non-collapse interpretation belonging to the family of Modal Interpretations and is expressed in algebraic formalism. The interpretation is modal because it adopts an irreducible concept of possibility and is Hamiltonian because the Hamiltonian operator of the quantum system defines the observables that acquire actual definite values. In this interpretative context, symmetries play a central role, both in the case of the symmetries of the Hamiltonian and regarding the role played by the Galilei group in interpretation.
MHI can account for the measurement problem both in its traditional version and in the most recent measuring scenarios and, when applied to well-known physical models, it agrees with the everyday practice of physics. Its closed-system perspective leads to a top-down view of quantum mechanics according to which entanglement and decoherence are essentially relative phenomena.
Table of Contents:
Theories and Interpretations
Standard Quantum Mechanics: Formalism and physical content
Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
The Postulates of the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation
Applications of the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation
The Quantum Measurement Problem
A Galilei-invariant Version of the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation
A Top-Down View of Quantum Mechanics
Metaphysical preliminaries
The Structure of the Modal-Hamiltonian Ontology
Facing the Ontological Challenges of Quantum Mechanics
Revisiting the Measurement Problem
Miscellanea
