DAVID WALLACE The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev Vaidman
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Everett Interpretation

scholarly journals On the Plurality of Quantum Theories: Quantum Theory as a Framework, and its Implications for the Quantum Measurement Problem

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-102
Author(s):  
David Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Quantum Measurement ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Measurement Problem ◽  
Quantum Theories ◽  
Everett Interpretation ◽  
Quantum Measurement Problem ◽  
Abstract Framework ◽  
As If

‘Quantum theory’ is not a single physical theory but a framework in which many different concrete theories fit. As such, a solution to the quantum measurement problem ought to provide a recipe to interpret each such concrete theory, in a mutually consistent way. But with the exception of the Everett interpretation, the main extant solutions either try to make sense of the abstract framework as if it were concrete, or else interpret one particular quantum theory under the fiction that it is fundamental and exact. In either case, these approaches are unable to help themselves to the very theory-laden, level-relative ways in which quantum theory makes contact with experiment in mainstream physics, and so are committed to major revisionary projects which have not been carried out even in outline. As such, only the Everett interpretation is currently suited to make sense of quantum physics as it is found.

Quantum theory of light in nonlinear media with dispersion and absorption

1998 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDUARD SCHMIDT , JOHN JEFFERS , STEPHEN M.
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Nonlinear Media
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