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- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 64)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Re-Examining the Legacy of Bohr and von Neumann
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Interpreting Quantum Theory
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Entanglement and Non-Locality
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Causation
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About this book
Quantum theory is the most successful of all physical theories: it has a towering mathematical structure, a vast range of accurate predictions, and technological applications. Its interpretation, however, is as unsettled now as in the heroic days of Einstein and Bohr.
This book focuses on quantum non-locality, the curious quantum correlations between spatially separated systems. Quantum non-locality was one subject of the debates between Einstein, Bohr and others such as Schrödinger. The topic was revived in the 1960s as a result of Bell's epoch-making theorems; since then it has been a very active research field, both theoretically and experimentally.
This book contains twenty new papers by eminent researchers, who report recent developments in both the physics of the subject and its philosophy. The physics topics covered include quantum information, the unsharp (positive-operator) approach to observables, the state-space approach, and the pilot-wave theory. The philosophy papers include precise studies of Bohr's reply to the original Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen non-locality paradox, and of non-locality's relation to causation, probability and modality.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-locality and Modality
Editors: Tomasz Placek, Jeremy Butterfield
Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0385-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0661-6Published: 30 June 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0662-3Published: 30 June 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0385-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 352
Topics: Quantum Physics, Logic, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Information and Communication, Circuits