Quantum Theory 100 Years Later: Advances on Foundations and Applications
A special issue of Physics (ISSN 2624-8174). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 2012
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Interests: electrodynamics in continuous media; Casimir effect; cosmology; fluid dynamics
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2. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Via S. Sofia 44, I-95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: casimir physics; quantum electrodynamics; quantum fluctuations; radiative processes in static and dynamical structured environments; quantum field theory in accelerated frames and in a curved space-time; PT symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum mechanics; quantum optomechanics; resonances and dressed unstable states; microscopic origin of time asymmetry in quantum physics; cosmological axions and dark matter
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Dear Colleagues,
Quantum mechanics has been one of the two major revolutions in physics of the XXth century, the other being special and general relativity theory. Its conceptual development has mainly been during the first three decades of that century. Quantum theory gave rise to a new paradigm about the very basic description of the microscopic world and of its reality, yielding the necessity of a completely new way of describing it, often at variance with our experience of the macroscopic world.
Despite around a century since its formal development, and of its exceptional success in explaining the microscopic physical world, several conceptual and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics are still unclear and the subject of intense debate. These fundamental aspects are currently a very active research field, as well as the application of quantum mechanics in several and broad fields of science and technology.
Many basic and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics and of its interpretation remain obscure and seemingly contradictory. For example: the problem of measurement, the transition from the microscopic to the macroscopic (classical) world, the meaning of reality in the quantum world, nonlocality and quantum entanglement, the meaning of fundamental physical parameters and the theory of renormalization, and the consistency of quantum mechanics with gravity.
Meanwhile, many open questions are still present in its application at different scales, for example in elementary particle physics, physics beyond the standard model, condensed matter physics, nanoscience and nanotechology, dark matter and dark energy, quantum information, quantum sensing, quantum field theory in non-inertial frames, or in the presence of gravitational fields.
This Special Issue aims at presenting original and review articles on all of these extremely important and actual aspects of quantum mechanics, ranging from the most fundamental level to applications, as well as historical aspects.
Prof. Dr. Iver H. Brevik
Prof. Dr. Roberto Passante
Prof. Dr. Akbar Salam
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- foundations of quantum theory
- foundations of relativistic quantum theory and quantum field theory
- measurement theory in quantum mechanics
- quantum entanglement
- quantum theory of the matter–field interactions
- quantum description of fundamental interactions
- physics beyond the standard model
- quantum vacuum
- applications of quantum mechanics
- quantum sensing
- quantum information
- applications of quantum mechanics in nanoscience and nanotechnology
- history of quantum mechanics
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