Elvis do A. Soares

Professor of Molecular Engineering

Chemical Engineering Program (PEQ/COPPE)

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

I am an Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering in the Chemical Engineering Program (PEQ) of COPPE at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). My main research interests are thermodynamics, statistical and quantum physics, with emphasis on liquids, electrolytes, colloids, and interfaces, spanning applications from soft matter to chemical engineering.

I have a PhD degree (2017) and a BSc degree (2011) in Physics from UFRJ. I was a postdoctoral researcher in the ATOMS group at the School of Chemistry at UFRJ between 2020 and 2024. I also served as a substitute professor at the Institute of Physics at UFRJ from 2013 to 2014, and again from 2017 to 2018. Additionally, I conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at NIDF from 2017 to 2019 in the field of fluid dynamics and turbulence. My doctoral research (2012–2017), carried out in the ICE group, focused on applying Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Type Ia Supernova explosions.

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PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.