Quantum mechanics at the crossroads : new perspectives from history, philosophy and physics /
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2007]
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| Series: | Frontiers collection.
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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.