Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Articles

   1. Philosophical and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics

      • Abner Shimony

      Pages 1-18

   2. Neutron Quantum Experiments and Their Epistemological Impact

      • Helmut Rauch

      Pages 19-41

   3. The Dynamical Reduction Program: An Example of a Quantum Theory without Observers

      • GianCarlo Ghirardi

      Pages 43-58

   4. Why do We Find Bohr Obscure?

      • Catherine Chevalley

      Pages 59-73

   5. Quantum Words for a Quantum World

      • Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

      Pages 75-87

   6. Quantum and Classical Gödelian Indeterminism, Measurement, and Informational Collapse into the Past

      • Yuri F. Orlov

      Pages 89-102

   7. Recent Advances in the Consistency of Interpretation

      • Roland Omnès

      Pages 103-111

   8. Active Information and Teleportation

      • B. J. Hiley

      Pages 113-126

   9. Experimental Quantum Teleportation of Qubits and Entanglement Swapping

      • Dik Bouwmeester, Jian-Wei Pan, Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger

      Pages 127-140

   10. Quantum Teleportation

       • H. J. Kimble

       Pages 141-146

   11. Quantum Repeaters for Quantum Communication

       • H. J. Briegel, J. I. Cirac, W. Dür, G. Giedke, P. Zoller

       Pages 147-154

   12. Quantum Engineering with Atoms and Photons in a Cavity

       • Serge Haroche

       Pages 155-166

   13. Why We Don’t Need Quantum Planetary Dynamics: Decoherence and the Correspondence Principle for Chaotic Systems

       • Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Juan Pablo Paz

       Pages 167-177

   14. Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Implied by the Correspondence Principle?

       • Kurt Gottfried

       Pages 179-185

   15. The Histories of Chaotic Quantum Systems

       • Walter Thirring

       Pages 187-198

   16. Epistemological Problems of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics and the Appearance of the Classical World of Macroscopic Objects

       • Erhard Oeser

       Pages 199-209

   17. Complementarity of Fringe Visibilities in Three-Particle Quantum Mechanics

       • Michael Horne

       Pages 211-220

3. Short Presentations

   1. Towards Coherent Matter Wave Optics with Macromolecules

      • Markus Arndt, Olaf Nairz, Gerbrand van der Zouw, Anton Zeilinger

      Pages 221-223

   2. Comparison of Wigner’s Function and de Broglian Probability Density for a Wave Packet and the Wave Packets Superposition

      • Mirjana Božić, Dušan Arsenović

      Pages 225-229

From the very beginning it was realised 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, opening up vistas to a completely novel technology: quantum technology. The contributions in the present volume review the interpretative situation, analyze recent fundamental experiments, and discuss the implications of possible future technological applications.
Readership: Analytic philosophers (logical empiricists), scientists (especially physicists), historians of logic, mathematics and physics, philosophers of science, and advanced students and researchers in these fields. Can be used for seminars on theoretical and experimental physics and philosophy of science, and as supplementary reading at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.

• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Rudolf Carnap
• epistemological problem
• invariance
• philosophy of science
• probability
• quantum mechanics
• reduction
• science

• City College of New York, USA

  Daniel Greenberger

• The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria

  Wolfgang L. Reiter

• University of Vienna, Austria

  Anton Zeilinger

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