The ?measurement problem? in quantum chemistry and the interpretation of phenomenological damping terms in the method of classical trajectories for nonadiabatic molecular collisions

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Dunne
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chemistry ◽  
Measurement Problem ◽  
Molecular Collisions ◽  
Classical Trajectories

scholarly journals Powers ontology and the quantum revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Koons
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chemistry ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Measurement Problem ◽  
Mass Density ◽  
Bohmian Mechanics ◽  
Causal Powers ◽  
Primitive Ontology ◽  
Modern Prejudice ◽  
Quantum Revolution

AbstractAn Aristotelian philosophy of nature rejects the modern prejudice in favor of the microscopic, a rejection that is crucial if we are to penetrate the mysteries of the quantum world. I defend an Aristotelian model by drawing on both quantum chemistry and recent work on the measurement problem. By building on the work of Hans Primas, using the distinction between quantum and classical properties that emerges in quantum chemistry at the thermodynamic or continuum limit, I develop a new version of the Copenhagen interpretation, a version that is realist, holistic, and hylomorphic in character, allowing for the attribution of fundamental causal powers to human observers and their instruments. I conclude with a critique of non-hylomorphic theories of primitive ontology, including Bohmian mechanics, Everettianism, and GRW mass-density.

Classical trajectories for non-adiabatic molecular collisions

1984 ◽  
Vol 112 (6) ◽  
pp. 497-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.J. Dunne ◽  
J.N. Murrell ◽  
J.G. Stamper
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Collisions ◽  
Classical Trajectories

Quantum Chemistry.

1958 ◽  
Vol 17 (3_4) ◽  
pp. 279-280
Author(s):  
Th. Förster
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chemistry
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