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From the beginning, it was acknowledged that quantum physics involves radically new interpretative and epistemological consequences. While hitherto there has been no satisfactory philosophical analysis of these consequences, recent years have witnessed the accomplishment of many experiments to test the foundations of quantum physics. The contributions in the present volume review the interpretative situation, analyze recent fundamental experiments, and discuss the implications of possible future technological applications. The text should be useful for analytic philosophers (logical empiricists), scientists (especially physicists), historians of logic, mathematics and physics, philosophers of science and advanced students and researchers in these fields. It can be used for seminars on theoretical and experimental physics and philosophy of science, and as supplementary reading at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Author:   Daniel Greenberger ,  W.L. Reiter ,  Anton Zeilinger
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.610kg
ISBN:  

9780792360636

ISBN 10:   079236063
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   30 November 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Articles.- Philosophical and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics (6th Vienna Circle Lecture).- Neutron Quantum Experiments and their Epistemological Impact.- The Dynamical Reduction Program: An Example of a Quantum Theory Without Observers.- Why do we Find Bohr Obscure?.- Quantum Words for a Quantum World.- Quantum and Classical Gödelian Indeterminism, Measurement, and Informational Collapse into the Past.- Recent Advances in the Consistency of Interpretation.- Active Information and Teleportation.- Experimental Quantum Teleportationof Qubits and Entanglement Swapping.- Quantum Teleportation.- Quantum Repeaters for Quantum Communication.- Quantum Engineering with Atoms and Photons in a Cavity.- Why We Don’t Need Quantum Planetary Dynamics: Decoherence and the Correspondence Principle for Chaotic Systems.- Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Implied by the Correspondence Principle?.- The Histories of Chaotic Quantum Systems.- Epistemological Problems of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics and the Appearance of the Classical World of Macroscopic Objects.- Complementarity of Fringe Visibilities In Three-Particle Quantum Mechanics.- Short Presentations.- Towards Coherent Matter Wave Optics with Macromolecules.- Comparison of Wigner’s Function and De Broglian Probability Density for a Wave Packet and the Wave Packets Superposition.- Quantum Complementarity and Information Invariance.- Fermi Inhibition in Inhomogeneous Atomic Gases.- Observation of Three-particle Entanglement.- Matter Wave Diffraction at Standing Light Waves.- Entangled States of Orbital Angular Momentum of Photons.- Zenonian Arguments in Quantum Mechanics.- What John von Neumann Thought of the Bohm Interpretation.- Observation of the Nondispersivity of Scalar Aharonov-Bohm PhaseShifts by Neutron Interferometry.- A Bell Experiment under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions.- Quantum Mechanics and Secret Communication.- Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Paradox for Three Tritters.- Report — Documentation.- Science — A House Built on Sand? A Conversation with Noretta Koertge.- Ornithology in a Cubical World: Reichenbach on Scientific Realism.- The Shortcomings of the TV-Screen in Cultural Communication.- Review Essay.- Quantum Measurement: On this Side of Paradox.- Reviews.- Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Survey 1999/2000.- Preview 2001.- Obituaries: Kurt Blaukopf, Wilhelm Frank.- INDEX OF NAMES.

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