Special Issue on Quantum Measurement [MDPI Entropy] (reposted)

Aim and Scope: Understanding the mechanisms governing physical reality has always been an important part of shaping our survival strategies. Quantum mechanics arguably posed one of the biggest issues in our struggle to provide the theory of Nature. While free evolution is well described by Schrödinger’s equation, how we learn about properties of quantum systems remains a topic of eternal debate. One could, for example, wonder why we observe only one outcome, why this particular outcome, and why not any other.  One may conclude that in fact this is not the case, and all possible scenarios of evolution are realized. Alternatively, it may seem that free dynamics is somehow perturbated during a measurement. This possibility calls for new physics, which could explain this behavior. The purpose of this Special Issue is to establish an agora for exchanging viewpoints on the quantum measurement problem.

Topics of interest:

The special Issue include, but are not limited to:

·       foundations of physics

·       quantum measurement

·       quantum collapse

·       non-demolishing quantum measurements

·       emergence of classicality

We welcome submissions of original research, perspectives, and comprehensive review articles. Please contact me for questions about suitability or the submission process.

Sincerely Yours,

Prof. dr hab. Marcin Wieśniak,

Head of Division of Quantum Correlations

Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics,

Universisty of Gdańsk,

Gdańsk, Poland