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Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads New Perspectives from History, Philosophy and Physics /

Quantum mechanics is a beautiful, strange and successful theory that originated in the 1920s. The theory, which Niels Bohr regarded as finished and complete, has in the last few decades rapidly developed in unexpected directions. An intense new focus on the stranger aspects of the theory, including...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Evans, James (Editor ), Thorndike, Alan S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:The Frontiers Collection,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Contexts and Challenges for Quantum Mechanics
  • Max Planck's compromises on the way to and from the Absolute
  • Atomic Waves in Private Practice
  • A Complementary Opposition: Louis de Broglie and Werner Heisenberg
  • Schrödinger Against Particles and Quantum Jumps
  • Aspects of Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics
  • Decoherence and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
  • What Are Consistent Histories?
  • Bose-Einstein Condensation: Identity Crisis for Indistinguishable Particles
  • Quantum Fluctuations of Light: A Modern Perspective on Wave/Particle Duality
  • Quantum Entanglement as a Resource for Communication
  • The Three Cases of Doctor von Neumann.