Literature

There is a huge literature about “foundations of Quantum Mechanics” where the interpretation of the theory plays a prominent role. The following list is of course a narrow, personal selection. A classic with a pragmatic approach to the question “what should be the relation between physical reality and a model (theory)?” is the paper by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (1935), “the EPR paper” (Section historical sources).

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    Yes, also scientists defend their viewpoint with passion and exclamation marks, sometimes. H.-D. Zeh’s 1993 pamphlet is similar to a “comment” to an earlier paper by N. Gisin and I. Percival (1992), perhaps there is a “reply”, too.

    • N. G. van Kampen, “Ten theorems about quantum mechanical measurements”, Physica A 153 (1988) 97; and “Macroscopic systems in quantum mechanics”, Physica A 194 (1993) 542
    • N. Gisin and I. C. Percival, “Wave-function approach to dissipative processes: are there quantum jumps?”, Phys. Lett. A 167 (1992) 315
    • H.-D. Zeh, “There are no quantum jumps, nor are there particles!”, Phys. Lett. A 172 (1993) 189
    • B. d’Espagnat, “A note on measurement”, Phys. Lett. A 282 (2001) 133
    • Stig Stenholm, “Radical operationalism”, Phys. Scr. 2010 (2010) 014001
    • G. Lindblad, “Foundations of quantum mechanics?”, Phys. Scr. 84 (2011) 018501
    • A. Hobson, “There are no particles, there are only fields”, Am. J. Phys. 81 (2013) 211
    • B.-G. Englert, “On quantum theory”, Eur. Phys. J. D 67 (2013) 238
    • W. A. Hofer, “Elements of physics for the 21st century”, J. Phys.: Conf. Series 504 (2014) 012014

    In this Post, there is a short list of Quantum Mechanics textbooks with a few notes about the theory’s interpretation and the measurement problem.