PSI 2016/2017 - Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Leifer)

What is the question? Quantum theory as an operational theory.

Basic Phenomenology: Interference, Mach-Zehnder, Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb, EPR-Bohm, No-Cloning

Generalized Formalism for quantum theory (density ops, CP-maps, POVMs, Lindblad eqn.)

Generalized formalism for quantum theory continued

Introduction to Ontological Models (Formalism, Examples, Spekkens' toy theory, maybe excess baggage theorem)

Contextuality (Spekkens' contextuality, Kochen-Specker contextuality, contextuality inequalities)

Reality of the quantum state (PBR theorem, overlap bounds, maybe some others if there is time)

Bell's theorem and the Colbeck-Renner theorem

Classical Limit 1 (Guest Lecture with Jess Riedel)

Classical Limit 2 (Guest Lecture with Joseph Emerson)

Everett/Many Worlds

de Broglie-Bohm theory and spontaneous collapse theories