Quantum mechanics at the crossroads : new perspectives from history, philosophy and physics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Evans, James, 1948-, Thorndike, A. S. (Alan S.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2007]
Series:Frontiers collection.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : contexts and challenges for quantum mechanics / James Evans
  • Max Planck's compromises on the way to and from the absolute / J. L. Heilbron
  • Atomic waves in private practice / Bruce R. Wheaton
  • A complementary opposition : Louis de Broglie and Werner Heisenberg / Georges Lochak
  • Schrödinger against particles and quantum jumps / Michel Bitbol
  • Aspects of nonlocality in quantum mechanics / Abner Shimony
  • Decoherence and the foundations of quantum mechanics / Maximilian Schlosshauer, Arthur Fine
  • What are consistent histories? / Alan Thorndike
  • Bose-Einstein condensation : identity crisis for indistinguishable particles / Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Quantum fluctuations of light : a modern perspective on wave/particle duality / Howard Carmichael
  • Quantum entanglement as a resource for communication / William K. Wootters
  • The three cases of Doctor von Neumann / Roland Omnès.