Quantum mechanics as classical statistical mechanics with an ontic extension and an epistemic restriction

Where does quantum mechanics part ways with classical statistical mechanics? Here the authors derive both within a common framework; the former differs from the latter by an ontic nonseparable random variable and a restriction on the allowed phase space distribution, both of order Planck’s constant....

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Main Authors: Agung Budiyono, Daniel Rohrlich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01375-w