The Schroedinger Show (Portuguese Edition)
However it may be, the weirdness of quantum mechanics is here to stay.
Schrodinger's cat gets a reality check
Researchers describe the wavefunction of Schroedinger's cat. Experimenting within quantum theory is an extremely complex process, where common intuitions are regularly inverted within shifting reality. Over the years several quantum features and methods of their study have been identified.
A colloquium paper published in European Physical Journal D looks into the alleged issues associated with quantum theory. Berthold-Georg Englert from the National University of Singapore reviews a selection of the potential Parallel universes — worlds where the dinosaur-killing asteroid never hit, or where Australia was colonised by the Portuguese — are a staple of science fiction.
Schrodinger's cat gets a reality check
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Registration is free, and takes less than a minute. Assessing the promise of gallium oxide as an ultrawide bandgap semiconductor December 18, In microelectronic devices, the bandgap is a major factor determining the electrical conductivity of the underlying materials. Adjust slider to filter visible comments by rank. Classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, as well as general relativity and superstring theory are all mathematical MODELS of reality.
It is by drawing an ANALOGY between any given model and the observable universe that we test the models, and to the extent that the analogy holds up, we accept the model as being a useful tool in predicting the behavior of the observable universe. A 'real world' entity such as a photon is exactly that: To the extent that QM fails to correspond by analogy to the actual observable state of the cat, it must be considered an inadequacy of the model.
Never conflate your models with reality. A cat is NOT a wave function, nor is a wave function a cat. Models aren't reality, certainly, but models can limit what reality can be. And if you throw out mathematical logic, you have nothing left with which to make a claim. In this case, what is claimed is that the mathematical models tend to rule against the epistemic interpretation. A 'scientific positivist' point of view is supported by epistemic considerations In QM, the act of observation seems to create the properties that the quantum system did not have prior to observation, because the conditions for observation to be possible, necessitates that the underlying reality be forced to conform to our a-priori intuitions, The result is that QM does not tell us about 'Independent Reality', but rather of our Experience of reality, since we add or force the wave-function to collapse into conceptual values.
There's a good reason people doubt explanations that deny objective reality.
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It's the same reason people trust that cats can't be alive and dead in the same universe at the same time. Parallel universes or, in other words, one universe that is itself in a state of tremendous superposition makes a lot more sense to me. What is called an 'electron' is not a particle nor is it a wave, It is only a 'particle' to the extent that experimental detection apparatus projects the underlying reality to the concept of 'position'.
Its a bad argument, because in the Everett interpretation, each path unfolds deterministically: There are no choices, only epistemic uncertainty in our brains about what we will do, whether we are in the universe where we will "choose" to do A or B. I like this view, because you get rid of the dualism of conscious "actors" and "observers" as different than other physical systems.
Has anyone considered that for any two observers separated by any amount in space and time, the reality must be different simply due to the fact that the information of the rest of reality reaching them has to be different, as dictated by the speed of light. Therefore two people observing the same event from different sides of a table will necessarily occupy two different realities and no objective consensus can be reached between them.
One may as well see the cat dead and the other alive, because effectively they both occupy slightly different universes, and the state of the matter may not need to be the same in both. Why would such a dualism implicit in the Copenhagen interpretation bother one to such an extent as to propose what amounts to metaphysics? It is not a surprise that reality must change its cloths to concepts to become knowledge for us. An epistemological interpretation seems more reasonable than Everett imo.
I wish you would explain what you think in my view "amounts to metaphysics". In fact, the very of idea of an "us", different from the rest of the universe, so that reality must transform itself to be known by us, smells to me of old religious concepts like that of a soul that is different from the physical world. We are just another part of the physical world. Nope, no religious or spiritual non-sense implied here. Our physical brains are subject to physical laws also, yes of course, but this does not imply that the mind synthesizes experience in accord with qm laws, To propose multiple instances of events that by definition are not all observable is metaphysics.
Noumenon, But can it affect results? I remember a few years ago when that late night radio show had an episode where they were trying to find out if human thought could affect things and the attempt if I remember correctly was a computer generating random numbers and the test was to see if people could make it generate a certain number repeatedly around 11 pm that evening.
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The results were charted and the result seemed to indicate pretty strongly that when a whole lot of people listening on the radio thought at the computer it did generate the same number repeatedly. Since that point in time I haven't discounted anything when it comes to qm measurements. A computer cannot usually change it's state without crashing. Computer memory is analogous to a railroad track. The processor cannot jump tracks easily. Instead you end up with a train wreck, or a blue screen in windows Note in other psychic experiments the computer is considered as a paragon of stability.
So the experiment setups themselves are often fraught with contradictions. Impressive views from everyone. Noumenon is in his element here. Let's challenge him a bit. As in, the Now is one of scale? For a synthesis of experience? I have stated explicitly that consciousness must have a purely physical basis.
Do not expect Realists to change. Philosophy can end the search for objectivity here. That is not going to happen. That is the bread and butter of too many people. You can not get more physical than that. So the experiment setups themselves are often fraught with contradictions I also remember such experiments planned for soccer matches and like due to the ,sometimes, high emotional focus of both spectators and viewers.
Don't know if it ever happened. I remember a few years ago when that late night radio show had an episode where they were trying to find out if human thought could affect things I don't think the mind 'reaches out' and effects physical systems in an active way like that. I don't believe in anything psychic People forget that the brain is just a bio-mechanism itself that 'operates' on experience. It must do so in a particular way, since it is a finite mechanism itself. It must have hard-wired 'forms of thought' as conditions for experience to be possible. We presuppose a-priori, certain concepts as a necessary condition for intuitive knowledge to be possible, given the nature of mind.
There is a strange sense in which this is a "participatory universe". There IS an objective reality existing independently of us, Because it lacks conceptual form. It has not been conceptualized for knowledge. Once the mind synthesizes experience brings together elements of sensibility into the mould of conceptual forms of thought ,..
Our perception and the observations upon which our theories are based are shaped by a kind of lens, the interpretive structure of our human brains. If the default option of Fermi-Dirac statistics, parabolic band is selected, then Eq. A user-defined option is also available for entering different expressions for the weights.
If the default option of Modified Gummel iteration is selected, then Eq. Other options are also available, including a user-defined option where you can enter your own mathematical expressions. The default expression for the Global error variable , schrp1. These names may change from the default in a more complicated model, and the expression will turn yellow if the names do not match.
In this case, some manual editing is needed. If we are dealing with a completely new problem, then for the Eigenfrequency search method menu under the Study Settings section, it is often necessary to use the default Manual search option to find the range of the eigenenergies. Once the range is found, we can switch to the Region search option with appropriate settings for the range and number of eigenvalues in order to ensure that all significant eigenstates are found by the solver.
For this tutorial, the estimated energy range is between This corresponds to The real and imaginary parts of the input fields refer to the real and imaginary parts of the eigenvalue, respectively. To look for the eigenenergies of bound states, we set the input fields for the real parts to the expected energy range and set the input fields for the imaginary parts to a small range around 0 to capture numerical noise or slightly leaky quasibound states, as shown below:. As we have pointed out earlier , the second Space Charge Density domain condition is only used for the Thomas-Fermi approximation solution in Study 1.
It is thus disabled under the Physics and Variables Selection section, as shown in the screenshot above. Under the Iterations section, the default option for the Termination method drop-down menu is Minimization of global variable , which automatically updates a result table that displays the history of the global error variable after each iteration during the solution process. The built-in global error variable schrp1. Setting the tolerance to 1E-6 thus means that the iteration ends after the max difference is less than 1 uV.
See the screenshot below for these settings:. Under the Values of Dependent Variables section, we select the Thomas-Fermi approximate solution from Study 1 as the initial condition for this study. We then use the Auxiliary sweep functionality to solve for a list of nonnegative azimuthal quantum numbers m. The dedicated solver sequence automatically performs the statistically weighted sum of the probability densities for all of the eigenstates. The solver converges in eight iterations thanks to the good initial condition provided by the Thomas-Fermi approximation and the good forward estimate of the space charge density given by Eq.
The plot of the electron density, potential energy, and partial orbital contributions agree well with the figure published in the reference paper.
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Comparison of the electron density, potential energy, and partial orbital contributions with the figure published in the reference paper. The plot below shows the Friedel-type spatial oscillations present in both the electron density and the potential energy profiles. Zoomed-in plot of the Friedel-type spatial oscillations in the electron density and potential energy profiles. To try this model yourself, click the button below to go to the Application Gallery, where you can download the documentation and, with a valid software license, the MPH-file for this tutorial.
We hope you find these new features useful and we would love to hear how you apply them to your research. No smaller real part found. No larger imaginary part found. No smaller imaginary part found. Decrease the size of the eigenvalue region. Failed to perform consistency check.
This is after using region to find the eigenvalues between Also i cannot also plot any of the eigenvalues due o discrepancy with the units.