帕斯夸尔-乔丹：从矩阵乘法到干涉定律

IF 0.8 4区物理与天体物理 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2024-06-07 DOI:10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00073-8

Domenico Costantini, Carlo Ferigato

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帕斯夸尔-乔丹是第一个提出概率振幅干涉定律作为量子力学原理的人。我们从历史的角度分析了概率论思想在这一提议中所起的作用。我们特别指出了被乔丹称为基本概念的概率论与量子力学之间的关系。乔丹是第一个强调总概率定律与干涉定律之间类比关系的人。在这方面，我们推测了乔丹得出干涉定律可能遵循的思想路径。我们并不反对通常概率与量子概率。相反，我们和乔丹一样，深信量子力学的规则是概率论的规则，而概率论已经不再是基本的了。

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Pascual Jordan: from matrix multiplication to interference law

Pascual Jordan was the first to propose the law of interference of probability amplitudes as a principle of quantum mechanics. We analyze the role of probabilistic ideas played in this proposal from a historical perspective. In particular, we point out the relation between the usual theory of probability that Jordan called elementary and quantum mechanics. Jordan was the first to stress the analogy between the law of total probability and the law of interference. In this regard, we speculate about the intellectual path Jordan might have followed in order to arrive at the interference law. We do not oppose the usual probability to quantum probability. Instead, we are convinced, as Jordan was, that the rules of quantum mechanics are the rules of a probability theory that has ceased to be elementary.

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The European Physical Journal H HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

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1.60

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10.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The purpose of this journal is to catalyse, foster, and disseminate an awareness and understanding of the historical development of ideas in contemporary physics, and more generally, ideas about how Nature works. The scope explicitly includes: - Contributions addressing the history of physics and of physical ideas and concepts, the interplay of physics and mathematics as well as the natural sciences, and the history and philosophy of sciences, together with discussions of experimental ideas and designs - inasmuch as they clearly relate, and preferably add, to the understanding of modern physics. - Annotated and/or contextual translations of relevant foreign-language texts. - Careful characterisations of old and/or abandoned ideas including past mistakes and false leads, thereby helping working physicists to assess how compelling contemporary ideas may turn out to be in future, i.e. with hindsight.