Are field quanta real objects? some remarks on the ontology of quantum field theory

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.08.001zbMath1390.81019OpenAlexW2753435465MaRDI QIDQ1752569

Tomasz Bigaj

Publication date: 24 May 2018

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://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.08.001

zbMATH Keywords

particlesquantum field theoryharmonic oscillatorsFock spaceontologyfield quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Physics (00A79)

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