Quantum Phenomena

WU Guo-lin

Phenomenological phenomena and quantum phenomena belonging to different domains have rather similarities that the concept of phenomena include the activities of appearances,entities themselves and their evolutions.Methodologically,phenomenology and quantum mechanics describe phenomena using the similar concepts of possibility and probability,the similar principles of free variety and complementarity.

Yuri A. Rylov

One can construct the model conception of quantum phenomena (MCQP) which relates to the axiomatic conception of quantum phenomena (ACQP), (i.e. to the conventional quantum mechanics) in the same way, as the statistical physics relates to thermodynamics. Such a possibility is based on a new conception of geometry, which admits one to construct such a deterministic space-time geometry, where motion of free particles is primordially stochastic. The space-time geometry can be chosen in such a way that statistical description of random particle motion coincides with the quantum description. Transition from ACQP to MCQP is a result of correction of some mistakes in the foundation of ACQP. Methods of MCQP in investigation of quantum phenomena appear to be more subtle and effective than, that of ACQP. For instance, investigation of the free Dirac equation in framework of MCQP shows that the Dirac particle is in reality a rotator, i.e. two particles rotating around their common center of inertia. In the framework of MCQP one can discover the force field, responsible for pair production, that is impossible in the framework of ACQP.

Arkady Plotnitsky

In several recent communications (Khrennikov 2019a, b, c, 2020a, b), A. Khrennikov argued for "eliminating the issue of quantum nonlocality" from the analysis of quantum entanglement and quantum phenomena in general. He proposed to differentiate quantum and classical phenomena and entanglement not by their respective nonlocality and locality, as is common, but by the discreteness of quantum phenomena vs. the continuity of classical phenomena, supplemented by Bohr's complementarity in the case of quantum phenomena. As I argue here, however, the question may not be that of "eliminating the issue of quantum nonlocality" but instead of illuminating this issue, a task that can, I also argue, be pursued by relating quantum nonlocality to other key features of quantum phenomena. I suggest that the following features of quantum phenomena and quantum mechanics, distinguishing them from classical phenomena and classical physics--(1) the irreducible role of measuring instruments in defining quantum phenomena; (2) discreteness; (3) complementarity; (4) entanglement; (5) quantum nonlocality; and (6) the irreducibly probabilistic nature of quantum predictions--are all interconnected in defining quantum phenomena and distinguishing them from classical ones, so that it is difficult to give an unconditional priority to any one of them. To argue this case, I consider quantum phenomena and quantum mechanics from a nonrealist or, in terms adopted here, "reality-without-realism" (RWR) perspective. This perspective extends and gives new dimensions to Bohr's view, grounded in his analysis of the irreducible tole of measuring instruments in the constitution of quantum phenomena, with quantum measurement defined by the entanglements between the quantum object under investigation and the instrument used.

Martin Pieper