About the Seminar
This special tutorial is held alongside the course Theoretische Physik 4: Quantenmechanik 1 at Goethe University Frankfurt.
The seminar offers a deeper dive into the philosophical and physical interpretations of quantum mechanics. Our main guide will be Travis Norsen's book Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.Lecture Notes
Seminar Plan (Calendar)
| Date | Topics & Questions |
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| 02.05.2025 |
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| 09.05.2025 |
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| 16.05.2025 |
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| 23.05.2025 |
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| 30.05.2025 |
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| 06.06.2025 |
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| 13.06.2025 |
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| 20.06.2025 |
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| 27.06.2025 |
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| 04.07.2025 |
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| 11.07.2025 |
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| 18.07.2025 |
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| 25.07.2025 |
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Organization & Points
The total of 20 points is distributed as follows:
- 10 points for presence in at least 8 sessions: at least 4 sessions in May. 2 in Juni and 2 in Juli.
- 10 points for the project and presentation
Student Projects
Here you will find the list of suggested assignments.
- Project 1 - Does the wave packet resolve the wave-particle duality?
- Project 2 - Is the moon there when nobody looks? reality and quantum theory
- Project 3 - What does decoherence actually do to the measurement problem?
- Project 4 - How can Born's Rule fail in some worlds of the Many-Worlds interpretation?
- Project 5 - Does Bell's theorem rely on the experimenter's free will?
- Project 6 - Electron trajectories in the hydrogen atom according to Pilot-Wave Theory
- Project 7 - Spin according to Pilot-Wave Theory
- Project 8 - Is quantum entanglement a wormhole in spacetime? (if you dare!)
- Project 9 - What are weak measurements?
- Project 10 - Explore objective collapse theories.
- Project 11 - Is relativistic quantum theory a local theory?
Literature
Contact & Info
Organized by Ehsan Mahdipour
Email: mahdipour@itp.uni-frankfurt.de
This seminar is inspired by the course "Grundlagen und Interpretationen der Quantenmechanik" of Prof. Kopietz. Check out his website.