Hervé ZWIRN
Why decoherence does not solve the measurement problem?
Date & heure
10 mars 2022, 14h
Lieu
Campus Pierre & Marie Curie – Place Jussieu – Tower 44-54 – Room 105 – 75005 Paris and on Zoom
Accueil
The measurement problem is often considered an inconsistency inside the quantum formalism. Even though it is now generally agreed that it is not the case, decoherence has sometimes been viewed as a possible solution. I will show that it is indeed not the case and will present what decoherence actually brings and which the problems we are left with are. I will then propose a possible solution to the measurement problem taking the role of the observer into account.
References:
– 2016 “The Measurement Problem: Decoherence and Convivial Solipsism”, Found. Phys., 46: pp 635
-667. https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05029
– 2017 “Delayed Choice, Complementarity, Entanglement and Measurement”, Physics Essays, 30, 3.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02364
– 2020 “Non Locality versus Modified Realism: Convivial Solipsism”, Found. Phys. Vol. 50, pp. 1-26,
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06451
– 2020 « L’observateur, un défi pour la physique quantique« ; Pour la Science N°509, Mars 2020.
– 2021 “Is the Past Determined?”, Found. Phys. Vol. 51, 57, https://rdcu.be/cj3a7, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02588