Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations - 4 (AIP Conference Proceedings / Atomic, Molecular, Chemical Physics) - Hardcover

Guillaume Adenier

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735404798 ISBN 13: 9780735404793

Publisher: American Institute of Physics, 2007

Synopsis

This conference was devoted to the 80 years of the Copenhagen Interpretation, and to the question of the relevance of the Copenhagen interpretation for the present understanding of quantum mechanics. It is in this framework that fundamental questions raised by quantum mechanics, especially in information theory, were discussed throughout the conference. As has become customary in our series of conference in Växjö, we were glad to welcome a fruitful assembly of theoretical physicists, experimentalists, mathematicians and even philosophers interested in the foundations of probability and physics. The nature of quantum fluctuations---in the form of Stochastic Electrodynamics or in other approaches to stochastic quantum mechanics---was also a central topic discussed during the conference, especially during debates. We should also mention talks on the completeness or incompleteness of quantum mechanics; on macroscopic quantum systems; on Bell's inequality, entanglement and experiments on quantum nonlocality (and locality); on Bohmian mechanics; on the connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity; on quantum probability; on quantum computing, quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography technologies; and more generally on the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics and on the philosophical problems raised by its interpretations.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735404798
• ISBN 13: 9780735404793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Guillaume Adenier, Andrei Yu Khrennikov, Pekka Lahti, Vladimir I. Man'ko, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen