Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-6063-6 (ISBN)
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.
Articles.- Philosophical and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics (6th Vienna Circle Lecture).- Neutron Quantum Experiments and their Epistemological Impact.- The Dynamical Reduction Program: An Example of a Quantum Theory Without Observers.- Why do we Find Bohr Obscure?.- Quantum Words for a Quantum World.- Quantum and Classical Gödelian Indeterminism, Measurement, and Informational Collapse into the Past.- Recent Advances in the Consistency of Interpretation.- Active Information and Teleportation.- Experimental Quantum Teleportationof Qubits and Entanglement Swapping.- Quantum Teleportation.- Quantum Repeaters for Quantum Communication.- Quantum Engineering with Atoms and Photons in a Cavity.- Why We Don’t Need Quantum Planetary Dynamics: Decoherence and the Correspondence Principle for Chaotic Systems.- Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Implied by the Correspondence Principle?.- The Histories of Chaotic Quantum Systems.- Epistemological Problems of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics and the Appearance of the Classical World of Macroscopic Objects.- Complementarity of Fringe Visibilities In Three-Particle Quantum Mechanics.- Short Presentations.- Towards Coherent Matter Wave Optics with Macromolecules.- Comparison of Wigner’s Function and De Broglian Probability Density for a Wave Packet and the Wave Packets Superposition.- Quantum Complementarity and Information Invariance.- Fermi Inhibition in Inhomogeneous Atomic Gases.- Observation of Three-particle Entanglement.- Matter Wave Diffraction at Standing Light Waves.- Entangled States of Orbital Angular Momentum of Photons.- Zenonian Arguments in Quantum Mechanics.- What John von Neumann Thought of the Bohm Interpretation.- Observation of the Nondispersivity of Scalar Aharonov-Bohm PhaseShifts by Neutron Interferometry.- A Bell Experiment under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions.- Quantum Mechanics and Secret Communication.- Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Paradox for Three Tritters.- Report — Documentation.- Science — A House Built on Sand? A Conversation with Noretta Koertge.- Ornithology in a Cubical World: Reichenbach on Scientific Realism.- The Shortcomings of the TV-Screen in Cultural Communication.- Review Essay.- Quantum Measurement: On this Side of Paradox.- Reviews.- Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Survey 1999/2000.- Preview 2001.- Obituaries: Kurt Blaukopf, Wilhelm Frank.- INDEX OF NAMES.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.1999 |
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Reihe/Serie | Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook ; 7 |
Zusatzinfo | X, 379 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7923-6063-X / 079236063X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7923-6063-6 / 9780792360636 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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