Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Log inSign up
Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Blog
Job Board
Q3AS

© 2026 Aqora Quantum S.A.S.

TermsPrivacyLegal Notice

Quantum mechanics without collapse: modal interpretations, histories and many worlds.

Meir Hemmo

Published Oct 29, 1996• 10 citations
OpenAlex

Related papers

O the Verge of Collapse: Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.

Laura Ruetsche

•Jan 1, 1995•0 citations

Quantum Histories in the Modal Interpretation

Meir Hemmo

The Western Ontario series in philosophy of science•Jan 1, 1998•2 citations

Interpreting the Modal Kochen–Specker theorem: Possibility and many worlds in quantum mechanics

Christian DE RONDE, Héctor Freytes, Graciela Domenech

arXiv:1404.5881•Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics•Dec 22, 2013•26 citations

MODAL ACTUALISM

Michael A. Shears

Modal Actualism offers a realist, non-Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics that preserves unitary dynamics while explaining definite outcomes without invoking collapse or branching. The central distinction is between modal structure—the full set of decoherent histories physically supported by the universal wavefunction—and actuality, the single decoherent history that is realised. Decoherence partitions modal structure into quasiclassical trajectories, but only one such trajectory constitutes the actual worldline. Probability is interpreted as modal measure: a structural feature of the wavefunction that quantifies the weight of possible histories without implying their actuality. This framework dissolves foundational paradoxes by blocking the inference from modal multiplicity to ontological multiplicity, thereby avoiding Everettian inflation while retaining the explanatory power of decoherence. Modal Actualism reconciles quantum correlations with relativistic locality and reframes cosmological fine-tuning as a feature of modal structure rather than evidence for multiverse ensembles

•Apr 25, 2026•0 citations

Possible Worlds in the Modal Interpretation

Meir Hemmo

An outline for a modal interpretation in terms of possible worlds is presented. The so-called Schmidt histories are taken to correspond to the physically possible worlds. The decoherence function defined in the histories formulation of quantum theory is taken to prescribe a non-classical probability measure over the set of the possible worlds. This is shown to yield dynamics in the form of transition probabilities for occurrent events in each world. The role of the consistency condition is discussed.

Philosophy of Science•Jan 1, 1996•3 citations

The metaphysics of quantum mechanics: Modal interpretations

Stuart Gluck

•Nov 1, 2004•0 citations
Modal Actualism offers a realist, non-Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics that preserves unitary dynamics while explaining definite outcomes without invoking collapse or branching. The central distinction is between modal structure—the full set of decoherent histories physically supported by the universal wavefunction—and actuality, the single decoherent history that is realised. Decoherence partitions modal structure into quasiclassical trajectories, but only one such trajectory constitutes the actual worldline. Probability is interpreted as modal measure: a structural feature of the wavefunction that quantifies the weight of possible histories without implying their actuality. This framework dissolves foundational paradoxes by blocking the inference from modal multiplicity to ontological multiplicity, thereby avoiding Everettian inflation while retaining the explanatory power of decoherence. Modal Actualism reconciles quantum correlations with relativistic locality and reframes cosmological fine-tuning as a feature of modal structure rather than evidence for multiverse ensembles
An outline for a modal interpretation in terms of possible worlds is presented. The so-called Schmidt histories are taken to correspond to the physically possible worlds. The decoherence function defined in the histories formulation of quantum theory is taken to prescribe a non-classical probability measure over the set of the possible worlds. This is shown to yield dynamics in the form of transition probabilities for occurrent events in each world. The role of the consistency condition is discussed.