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Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success Story

Yakir Aharonov Festschrift

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Daniele C. Struppa

    1. Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, USA

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  2. Jeffrey M. Tollaksen

    1. Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, USA

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  • List of contributors is a who-is-who of contemporary quantum physics

  • Covers topics of contemporary interest in the foundation of quantum physics

  • Focusses on weak measurement, which is currently one of the hottest topics in physics

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Quantum Mechanics and Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Century of Quantum Mechanics

      • David Gross
      Pages 3-8

    3. Realism and the Physical World

      • A. J. Leggett
      Pages 9-20

    4. Each Instant of Time a New Universe

      • Yakir Aharonov, Sandu Popescu, Jeff Tollaksen
      Pages 21-36

  3. Building Blocks of Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. The Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism and Its Scalar Boson

      • Francois Englert
      Pages 39-51

    3. NET = T.O.E.?

      • Shmuel Nussinov
      Pages 53-69

  4. Time and Cosmology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. The Limits of Black Hole Complementarity

      • Leonard Susskind
      Pages 73-100

    3. Quantum Weak Measurements and Cosmology

      • P. C. W. Davies
      Pages 101-112

    4. The Quantum Mechanical Arrows of Time

      • James B. Hartle
      Pages 113-128

  5. Universe as a Wavefunction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Collapse Miscellany

      • Philip Pearle
      Pages 131-156

    3. Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty

      • Sean M. Carroll, Charles T. Sebens
      Pages 157-169

    4. Physics and Narrative

      • David Albert
      Pages 171-182

  6. Nonlocality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Quantum Correlations in Newtonian Space and Time:

      • Nicolas Gisin
      Pages 185-203

    3. PR-Box Correlations Have No Classical Limit

      • Daniel Rohrlich
      Pages 205-211

    4. A Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm Effect, and Its Connection to Parametric Oscillators and Gravitational Radiation

      • Raymond Y. Chiao, Robert W. Haun, Nader A. Inan, Bong-Soo Kang, Luis A. Martinez, Stephen J. Minter et al.
      Pages 213-246
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About this book

Yakir Aharonov is one of the leading figures in the foundations of quantum physics. His contributions range from the celebrated Aharonov-Bohm effect (1959), to the more recent theory of weak measurements (whose experimental confirmations were recently ranked as the two most important results of physics in 2011). This volume will contain 27 original articles, contributed by the most important names in quantum physics, in honor of Aharonov's 80-th birthday.

Sections include "Quantum mechanics and reality," with contributions from Nobel Laureates David Gross and Sir Anthony Leggett and Yakir Aharonov, S. Popescu and J. Tollaksen; "Building blocks of Nature" with contributions from Francois Englert (co-proposer of the scalar boson along with Peter Higgs); "Time and Cosmology" with contributions from Leonard  Susskind, P.C.W. Davies and James Hartle; "Universe as a Wavefunction," with contributions from Phil Pearle, Sean Carroll and David Albert; "Nonlocality,"  with contributions from Nicolas Gisin, Daniel Rohrlich, Ray Chiao and Lev Vaidman; and finishing with multiple sections on weak values with contributions from A. Jordan, A. Botero, A.D. Parks, L. Johansen, F. Colombo, I. Sabadini, D.C. Struppa, M.V. Berry, B. Reznik, N. Turok, G.A.D. Briggs, Y. Gefen, P. Kwiat, and A. Pines, among others.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, USA

    Daniele C. Struppa, Jeffrey M. Tollaksen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success Story

  • Book Subtitle: Yakir Aharonov Festschrift

  • Editors: Daniele C. Struppa, Jeffrey M. Tollaksen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5217-8

  • Publisher: Springer Milano

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Italia 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5216-1Published: 25 September 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5863-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-5217-8Published: 12 September 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 406

  • Number of Illustrations: 83 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

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