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Sheldon Goldstein is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans several areas within physics and mathematics, with a significant focus on foundational and applied topics in physics.

The main fields of study for this scientist include Physics and Astronomy as well as Mathematics. Within these fields, their work covers subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Mathematical Physics; and History and Philosophy of Science.

The research topics frequently explored include Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Stochastic Processes and Statistical Mechanics, Philosophy and History of Science, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Quantum Information and Cryptography.

Sheldon Goldstein has contributed to multiple publications, with papers appearing in a diverse range of scientific venues. Some notable recent papers are:

  • Entropy growth during free expansion of an ideal gas, 2022, Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
  • Boltzmann Entropy of a Freely Expanding Quantum Ideal Gas, 2023, Journal of Statistical Physics
  • The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations, 2022, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • Arrival Times Versus Detection Times, 2024, Foundations of Physics
  • Stationary states of the one-dimensional facilitated asymmetric exclusion process, 2023, Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques

The scientist has also published works through Springer International Publishing, including the book Physics and the Nature of Reality in 2024.

Frequent co-authors associated with this researcher include:

  • Joel L. Lebowitz
  • Nino Zanghì
  • Roderich Tumulka
  • Abhishek Dhar
  • Anupam Kundu

The publication venues where Sheldon Goldstein has frequently contributed include arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Statistical Physics, Foundations of Physics, Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, and Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques.

Best Publications

  • Quantum Equilibrium and the Origin of Absolute Uncertainty

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Nino Zanghí

  • Bohmian mechanics and quantum theory : an appraisal

    James T. Cushing;Arthur Fine;Sheldon Goldstein

  • On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory

    Valia Allori;Sheldon Goldstein;Roderich Tumulka;Nino Zanghi

  • On the (Boltzmann) entropy of non-equilibrium systems

    S Goldstein;Joel L Lebowitz

  • Quantum Physics Without Quantum Philosophy

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Nino Zanghì

  • Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics

    Sheldon Goldstein

  • Bohmian mechanics and quantum field theory

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Roderich Tumulka;Nino Zanghì

  • Quantum Theory without Observers—Part One

    Sheldon Goldstein

  • Long-Time Behavior of Macroscopic Quantum Systems: Commentary Accompanying the English Translation of John von Neumann's 1929 Article on the Quantum Ergodic Theorem

    S. Goldstein;J. L. Lebowitz;R. Tumulka;N. Zanghì

  • Quantum Equilibrium and the Role of Operators as Observables in Quantum Theory

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Nino Zanghì

  • Approach to thermal equilibrium of macroscopic quantum systems

    Sheldon Goldstein;Joel L. Lebowitz;Christian Mastrodonato;Roderich Tumulka

  • Normal typicality and von Neumann's quantum ergodic theorem

    Sheldon Goldstein;Joel L. Lebowitz;Christian Mastrodonato;Roderich Tumulka

  • Nonlocality, Lorentz invariance, and Bohmian quantum theory.

    Karin Berndl;Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Nino Zanghì

  • Bohmian Mechanics and the Meaning of the Wave Function

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Nino Zanghì

  • A mechanical model of Brownian motion

    D. Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Joel Lebowitz

  • Can Bohmian mechanics be made relativistic

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Travis Norsen;Ward Struyve

  • On the global existence of Bohmian mechanics

    K. Berndl;D. Dürr;S. Goldstein;G. Peruzzi

  • Many Worlds and Schrödinger’s First Quantum Theory

    Valia Allori;Sheldon Goldstein;Roderich Tumulka;Nino Zanghi

  • Matter Density and Relativistic Models of Wave Function Collapse

    Daniel Bedingham;Detlef Dürr;GianCarlo Ghirardi;GianCarlo Ghirardi;Sheldon Goldstein

  • Bohmian mechanics as the foundation of quantum mechanics

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Nino Zanghì

  • Bell-type quantum field theories

    Detlef Dürr;Sheldon Goldstein;Roderich Tumulka;Nino Zanghì

  • Bohmian mechanics and the meaning of the wave function

    D. Durr;N. Zanghi;S. Goldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel L. Lebowitz
Joel L. Lebowitz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont Université Catholique de Louvain
David A. Huse
David A. Huse Princeton University
Michael Aizenman
Michael Aizenman Princeton University
Yakov G. Sinai
Yakov G. Sinai Princeton University
Pablo A. Ferrari
Pablo A. Ferrari University of Buenos Aires
Bernard Derrida
Bernard Derrida Collège de France
William G. Hoover
William G. Hoover University of California, Davis
Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger University of Vienna

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