1. A centennial reappraisal of Heisenberg's Quantum Mechanics with a perspective on Einstein's Quantum Riddle
- Author
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Choy, Tuck C.
- Subjects
Quantum Physics ,Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics - Abstract
Heisenberg's breakthrough in his July 1925 paper that set in motion the development of Quantum Mechanics through subsequent papers by Born, Jordan, Heisenberg and also Dirac (from 1925 to 1927) is reexamined through a modern lens. In this paper, we shall discuss some new perspectives on (i) what could be the guiding intuitions for his discoveries and (ii) the origin of the Born-Jordan-Heisenberg canonical quantization rule. From this vantage point we may get an insight into Einstein's Quantum Riddle (Lande1974,Sommerfeld1918,Born1926) and a possible glimpse of what might come next after the last 100 years of Heisenberg's quantum mechanics., Comment: (This is the preprint of a paper dedicated to the celebration of 100 years of quantum mechanics, on the anniversary of Heisenberg's founding paper on the subject in July 1925, to be published in a celebratory volume in July 2025 by World Scientific Publications, Singapore)
- Published
- 2023