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Quantum Mechanics without Waves: A Generalization of Classical Statistical Mechanics

✍ Scribed by Marcello Cini

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
132 KB
Volume
273
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-4916

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✦ Synopsis

We generalize classical statistical mechanics to describe the kynematics and the dynamics of systems whose variables are constrained by a single quantum postulate (discreteness of the spectrum of values of at least one variable of the theory). This is possible provided we adopt Feynman's suggestion of dropping the assumption that the probability for an event must always be a positive number. This approach has the advantage of allowing a reformulation of quantum theory in phase space without introducing the unphysical concept of probability amplitudes, together with all the problems concerning their ambiguous properties.

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