New Developments on Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics

1. The Hidden-Measurement Formalism: Quantum Mechanics as a Consequence of Fluctuations on the Measurement.- 2. A Model with Varying Fluctuations in the Measurement Context.- 3. Short-Time Behavior and Zero Effect in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory.- 4. A Minimal Local Extension of the Quantum Formalism.- 5. Chaos and Decoherence in a Quantum System with a Regular Classical Counterpart.- 6. Quantum Computation.- 7. Superdiffusive Behavior in Weakly Chaotic Systems: A New Avenue to Quantum Macroscopic Manifestations.- 8. A Proof with 18 Vectors of the Bell-Kochen-Specker Theorem.- 9. Temporal Bell Inequalities and the Uncertainty Principle.- 10. Parametric Down-Conversion Experiments in the Wigner Representation.- 11. Negative Entropy in Quantum Information Theory.- 12. Stochastic Approach to the Tunnel Effect.- 13. Classical Physical Entities with a Quantum Description.- 14. Dynamical Effects Generated by the Current Fluctuations in a Long Solenoid.- 15. Coherent States and the Measurement Problem.- 16. Contextualism, Locality, and the No-Go Theorems.- 17. A State-Specific Proof of the Bell-Kochen-Specker Theorem Using Only 5 Propositions.- 18. Properties of a Causal Qauntum Theory in Phase Space.- 19. From Quantum to Classical: the Quantum State Diffusion Model.- 20. Quantum Physics and the Problem of the Ontological Priority Between Continuous Quantity and Discrete Quantity.- 21. Localized and Delocalized States in Pyramidal Molecules.- 22. A Bigger Contradiction Between Quantum Theory and Locality for Two Particles without Inequalities.- 23. Irreversible Quantum Evolution for Unstable Systems in Lax-Phillips Scattering Theory.- 24. Dichotomic Functions and Bell’s Theorems.- 25. Production and Uses of Hyper-Entangled States.- 26. From Newton to Schrödinger andBeyond.- 27. Quenching of Spontaneous Emission via Quantum Interference: Time Evolution.- 28. Quantum Mechanics on Discrete Space and Time.- 29. Symplectic Tomography of Schrödinger Cat States of a Trapped Ion.- 30. Magical Photon or Real Zeropoint?.- 31. Linear and Nonlinear Optical Response of a Dilute Bose Gas in the Condensation Regime.- 32. Quantum Measurement and Practice in Nuclear Physics.- 33. Quantum Predictions without Nonlocal Projections.- 34. The Emergence of Statistical Laws in Quantum Mechanics.- 35. Consistent Histories: A Critique.- 36. Immaterial Interpretation of Quantum Theory in the Context of Quantum Cosmology.- 37. Atom Interferometry for Quantum Gravity?.- 38. Quantum Nonlocality and Inseparability.- 39. Decoherence Limits to Quantum Factoring.- 40. Quantum Engineering with Trapped Ions.- 41. Many-Valued Interpretation of the Logic of Quantum Mechanics.- 42. No Point Particles, Definitely no Waves.- 43. Interference and Violation of Bell’s Inequalities Using Separate Sources.- 44. Bell’s Inequality for a Particle.- 45. Quantum Gravity Corrections for the Initial State of Gravitons.- 46. Quantum Privacy Amplification: A Secure Method for Cryptography.- 47. The Program of Local Hidden Variables.- 48. Noninvariant Velocity of Light and Locally Equivalent Reference Frames.- 49. Quantum Interferometry, Measurement and Objectivity: Some Basic Features Revisited.- 50. Effect of QED Fluctuations on the Dynamics of the Macroscopic Phase.- 51. What When Gleason’s Theorem Fails?.- 52. Quantum Decoherence Induced by Gravitational Fluctuations in the Measurement Apparatus.- 53. Schrödinger Cat States in Quantum Optics.- 54. An Experimental Realization of Bohm’s Spin-1/2 Particle EPR Gedanken Experiment.- 55. What is Achieved by Decoherence?.-Author Index.