Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: A New Ontological View of the Quantum Measurement Problem   A new ontological view of the quantum measurement processes is given, which
has bearings on many broader issues in the foundations of quantum mechanics as
well. In this scenario a quantum measurement is a non-equilibrium phase
transition in a ``resonant cavity'' formed by the entire physical universe
including all of its material and energy content. A quantum measurement
involves the energy and matter exchange among not only the system being
measured and the measuring apparatus but also the global environment of the
universe resonant cavity, which together constrain the nature of the phase
transition. Strict realism, including strict energy and angular momentum
conservation, is recovered in this view of the quantum measurement process
beyond the limit set by the uncertainty relations, which are themselves derived
from the exact commutation relations for quantum conjugate variables. Both the
amplitude and the phase of the quantum mechanical wavefunction acquire
substantial meanings in the new ontology, and the probabilistic element is
removed from the foundations of quantum mechanics, its apparent presence in the
quantum measurement being solely a result of the sensitive dependence on
initial/boundary conditions of the phase transitions of a many
degree-of-freedom system which is effectively the whole universe. Vacuum
fluctuations are viewed as the ``left over'' fluctuations after forming the
whole numbers of nonequilibrium resonant modes in the universe cavity. This new
view on the quantum processes helps to clarify many puzzles in the foundations
of quantum mechanics.

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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an