Probability and Nonlocality in (2007)
Many Minds Interpretations, Meir Hemmo, Itamar Pitowsky
We argue that certain types of many minds (and many worlds) interpretations of quantum mechanics, e.g. Lockwood ([1996a]), Deutsch ([1985]) do not provide a coherent interpretation of the quantum...
"Maxwell's Demon", the famous thought experiment of James Clerk Maxwell, has been devised in 1867 as a counter example for the Second Law of thermodynamics. During the 140 years since the Demon was...
"Maxwell's Demon", the famous thought experiment of James Clerk Maxwell, has been devised in 1867 as a counter example for the Second Law of thermodynamics. During the 140 years since the Demon was...
Prediction and retrodiction in Boltzmann's approach to classical statistical mechanics (2006)
In this paper we address two problems in Boltzmann's approach to statistical mechanics. The first is the justification of the probabilistic predictions of the theory. And the second is the inadequacy...
Explaining the Unobserved: Why Quantum Theory Ain't Only About Information (2006)
A remarkable theorem by Clifton, Bub and Halvorson (2003) (CBH) characterizes quantum theory in terms of information--theoretic principles. According to Bub (2004, 2005) the philosophical...
Von Neumann's Entropy Does Not Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy (2006)
Abstract Von Neumann (1932, Ch. 5) argued by means of a thought experiment involving measurements of spin observables that the quantum mechanical quantity is conceptually equivalent to thermodynamic...
Explaining the unobserved: why quantum mechanics is not only about information (2005)
A remarkable theorem by Clifton, Bub and Halvorson (2003)(CBH) characterizes quantum theory in terms of information--theoretic principles. According to Bub (2004, 2005) the philosophical significance...
Explaining the Unobserved: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Not only About Information (2005)
A remarkable theorem by Clifton, Bub and Halverson (2003) (CBH) characterizes quantum theory in terms of information--theoretic principles. According to Bub (2004, 2005) the philosophical...
The Von Neumann Entropy: A Reconsideration (2005)
Over the past few years there has been a dispute in the literature regarding the Von Neumann entropy. It turns out that each contribution to this dispute (Shenker 1999, Henderson 2001, Hemmo 2003)...
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Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium (II) (2004)
In a previous paper (Hemmo and Shenker 2003) we discussed a recent proposal by Albert (2000, Ch. 7) to recover thermodynamics on a purely dynamical basis, using the quantum theory of the collapse of...
Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity: A Reconsideration (2004)
Berkovitz, Joseph, Hemmo, Meir
Two of the main interpretative problems in quantum mechanics are the so-called measurement problem and the question of the compatibility of quantum mechanics with relativity theory. Modal...
How to Reconcile Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics with Relativity (2003)
Berkovitz, Joseph, Hemmo, Meir
Recent no go theorems by Dickson and Clifton (1998), Arntzenius (1998) and Myrvold (2002) demonstrate that current modal interpretations are incompatible with relativity. In this paper we propose...
Probability and Nonlocality in Many Minds Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (2003)
We argue that certain types of many minds (and many worlds) interpretations of quantum mechanics, e.g. Lockwood ([1996a]), Deutsch ([1985]) do not provide a coherent...
Remarks on the Direction of Time in Quantum Mechanics (2002)
I consider the question of the direction of time in the context of the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. I focus on the special role of decoherence in the recovery of time asymmetric...
Does Indeterminism Give Rise to an Intrinsic Time Arrow? (2001)
Dolev, Shahar, Elitzur, Avshalom C., Hemmo, Meir
In any physical theory that admits true indeterminism, the thermodynamic arrow of time can arise regardless of the system's initial conditions. Hence on such theories time's arrow emerges out of the...
Probability and Nonlocality in Many Minds Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (2001)
We argue that a certain type of many minds (and many worlds) interpretations of quantum mechanics, e.g. Lockwood ([1996a]), Deutsch ([1985]) do not provide a coherent interpretation of the quantum...
Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium (Part 1) (2001)
We discuss a recent proposal by Albert (1994a,b; 2000, Chapter 7) to recover thermodynamics on a purely dynamical basis, using the quantum theory of the collapse of the wave function of Ghirardi,...