:new perspectives from history, philosophy and physics
/ James Evans, Alan S. Thorndike, [eds]
Berlin ; New York
: Springer,
, c2007.
x, 249 p. ill. 24 cm.
(The frontiers collection,1612-3018)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 --Schrodinger 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 --Thethree cases of Doctor von Neumann /Roland Omnes.