Lopez, Cristian (2021) The Physics and the Philosophy of Time Reversal in Standard Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]
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Abstract
A widespread view in physics holds that the implementation of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics must be given by an anti-unitary operator. In foundations and philosophy of physics, however, there has been some discussion about the conceptual grounds of this orthodoxy, largely relying on either its obviousness or its mathematical-physical virtues. My aim in this paper is to substantively change the traditional structure of the debate by highlighting the philosophical commitments underlying the orthodoxy. I argue the persuasive force of the orthodoxy greatly depends on a relationalist metaphysics of time and a by-stipulation view of time-reversal invariance. Only with such philosophical background can the orthodoxy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics succeed and be properly justified.
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| Keywords: | quantum mechanics, time reversal, anti-unitarity, relationalism, symmetry | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Cristian Lopez | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2021 04:33 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2021 04:33 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 19589 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 1 September 2021 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19589 |
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