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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik

AGPhil 14: Alternative Approaches II

AGPhil 14.1: Talk

Monday, March 16, 2015, 16:30–17:00, A 060

A local realistic interpretation of experiments in quantum optics — •Falk Rühl — Auf der Alm 14, D-52159 Roetgen

The space/time statistics of quantum counting events, as well as the observed spectral selection rules are derived from a classical local realistic model of the interaction of a very large, but still finite, number of uncorrelated charged oscillators, having finite binding energies, via classical EM-waves propagating in R³.

The interpretation of key experiments in quantum optics based on this model is both strikingly simple, as well as free of the paradoxes associated with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum generation and propagation, like which way, delayed choice, action at a distance, possible histories, Schrödingers cat etc..

The model provides a continuous transition across the quantum classical divide, explains the observation of line spectra and the associated selection rules without quantized energy states or quantum jumps, and the nature of the EM vacuum field.

The model restricts the range of parameters, where predictions based on the Copenhagen interpretation can be made consistent with experiments, without having to resort to non-classical properties, and also restricts the types of problems, that can be solved with technical systems based on quantum detection.