INVESTIGADORES
LOMBARDI olimpia Iris
artículos
Título:
The role of the Hamiltonian in the interpretation of quantum mechanics
Autor/es:
MARIO CASTAGNINO; OLIMPIA LOMBARDI
Revista:
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCES SERIES
Editorial:
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Bristol; Año: 2008 vol. 28 p. 1 - 19
ISSN:
1742-6588
Resumen:
Given the impressive success of environment-induced decoherence (EID), nowadays no interpretation of quantum mechanics can ignore its results. The modal-Hamiltonian interpretation (MHI) has proved to be effective for solving several interpretative problems but, since its actualization rule applies to closed systems, it seems to stand at odds of EID. The purpose of this paper is to show that this is not the case: the states einselected by the interaction with the environment according to EID (the elements of the “pointer basis”) are the eigenvectors of an actual-valued observable belonging to the preferred context selected by the MHI.