The state is not abolished, it withers away: how quantum field theory became a theory of scattering

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.01.004zbMath1375.81017arXiv2011.05908OpenAlexW2594466356MaRDI QIDQ1682023

Alexander S. Blum

Publication date: 28 November 2017

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05908

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Physics (00A79) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81Txx)

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