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Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Greenberger

    1. City College of New York, USA

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  2. Wolfgang L. Reiter

    1. The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Anton Zeilinger

    1. University of Vienna, Austria

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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (VCIY, volume 7)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  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, DuÅ¡an Arsenović
      Pages 225-229
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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