Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics

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Pub. Date: 1999-12-01
Publisher(s): Kluwer Academic Pub
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Editorial ix
Articles
Philosophical and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics (6th Vienna Circle Lecture)
1(18)
Abner Shimony
Neutron Quantum Experiments and their Epistemological Impact
19(24)
Helmut Rauch
The Dynamical Reduction Program: An Example of a Quantum Theory Without Observers
43(16)
Gian-Carlo Ghirardi
Why do we Find Bohr Obscure?
59(16)
Catherine Chevalley
Quantum Words for a Quantum World
75(14)
Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond
Quantum and Classical Godelian Indeterminism, Measurement, and Informational Collapse into the Past
89(14)
Yuri F. Orlov
Recent Advances in the Consistency of Interpretation
103(10)
Roland Omnes
Active Information and Teleportation
113(14)
Basil Hiley
Experimental Quantum Teleportation of Qubits and Entanglement Swapping
127(14)
Dik Bouwmeester
Jian-Wei Pan
Harald Weinfurter
Anton Zeilinger
Quantum Teleportation
141(6)
H.J. Kimble
Quantum Repeaters for Quantum Communication
147(8)
H.J. Briegel
J.I. Cirac
W. Dur
G. Giedke
P. Zoller
Quantum Engineering with Atoms and Photons in a Cavity
155(12)
Serge Haroche
Why We Don't Need Quantum Planetary Dynamics: Decoherence and the Correspondence Principle for Chaotic Systems
167(12)
Wojciech H. Zurek
Juan P. Paz
Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Implied by the Correspondence Principle?
179(8)
Kurt Gottfrid
The Histories of Chaotic Quantum Systems
187(12)
Walter Thirring
Epistemological Problems of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics and the Appearance of the Classical World of Macroscopic Objects
199(12)
Erhard Oeser
Complementarity of Fringe Visibilities In Three-Particle Quantum Mechanics
211(10)
Michael A. Horne
Short Presentations
Towards Coherent Matter Wave Optics with Macromolecules
221(4)
Markus Arndt
Olaf Nairz
Gerbrand Van Der Zouw
Anton Zeilinger
Comparison of Wigner's Function and De Broglian Probability Density for a Wave Packet and the Wave Packets Superposition
225(6)
Mirjana Bozic
Dusan Arsenovic
Quantum Complementarity and Information Invariance
231(4)
Caslav Brukner
Anton Zeilinger
Fermi Inhibition in Inhomogenous Atomic Gases
235(4)
Thomas Busch
J.I. Cirac
J.R. Anglin
P. Zoller
Observation of Three-particle Entanglement
239(6)
Matthew Daniell
Dik Bouwmeester
Jian-Wei Pan
Harald Weinfurter
Anton Zeilinger
Matter Wave Diffraction at Standing Light Waves
245(4)
Claudia Keller
Jorg Schmiedmayer
Anton Zeilinger
Entangled States of Orbital Angular Momentum of Photons
249(4)
Alois Mair
Anton Zeilinger
Zenonian Arguments in Quantum Mechanics
253(4)
Laszlo Ropolyi
Peter Szegedi
What John von Neumann Thought of the Bohm Interpretation
257(6)
Michael Stoltzner
Observation of the Nondispersivity of Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Phase Shifts by Neutron Interferometry
263(4)
Gerbrand Van Der Zouw
Anton Zeilinger
A Bell Experiment under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions
267(4)
Gregor Weihs
Thomas Jennewein
Christoph Simon
Harald Weinfurter
Anton Zeilinger
Quantum Mechanics and Secret Communication
271(4)
Patrick Zarda
Surasak Chiangga
Thomas Jennewein
Harald Weinfurter
Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Paradox for Three Tritters
275(4)
Marek Zukowski
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Report-Documentation
Science A House Built on Sand? A Conversation with Noretta Koertge
279(24)
Friedrich Stadler
Ilkka A. Kieseppa
Ornithology in a Cubical World: Reichenbach on Scientific Realism
303(14)
Wesley Salmon
The Shortcomings of the TV-Screen in Cultural Communication
317(20)
Kurt Blaukopf
Review Essay
Quantum Measurement: On this Side of Paradox
337(10)
Laszlo E. Szabo
Reviews
Carnap's Construction of the World. The Aufbau and the Emergence of Logical Empiricism, 1996 (Werner Sauer)
347(3)
Alan W. Richardson
Austrain Philosophy Past and Present. Essays in Honor of Rudolf Haller, 1997 (Kevin Mulligan)
350(3)
Keith Lehrer
Johann Christian Marek
Wittgenstein y el Circulo de Viena/Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis: Actas del Congreso Internacional, Toledo 1994, 1998 (Nelson G. Gomes
353(3)
Jesus Padilla Galvez
A House Built on Sand. Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science. 1998 (I.A. Kieseppa)
356(4)
Noretta (Koertge (ED.)
The Cosmos of Science. 1997 (Thomas Breuer)
360(5)
John Earman
John D. Norton
Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle
Survey 1999/2000
365(3)
Preview 2001
368(1)
Obituaries: Kurt Blaukopf, Wilhelm Frank
369(4)
Index of Names 373

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