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Quantum Mechanics has been likened to a giant on earthen feet: extraordinarily successful in many domains of physics, the most precise theory of Mankind, but with unsolved fundamental questions. People are still discussing:

  • what is the meaning of the wave function?
  • does a state describe a system by itself or our knowledge of it?
  • do measurements happen without conscious observers?
  • can quantum correlations transmit information (or something else) faster than light?

During the winter term 2016/17, a course at University of Potsdam has presented a few interpretations that have been developed over the years and that have lead, in some cases, to theories that can be experimentally checked. The course tried to provide a critical survey of

  • the wave-particle dualism
  • the collapse of the wave function
  • the randomness of measured values
  • experiments with single quantum systems