Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology: Selected Papers from the Proceedings of the First Through Fourth International Symposia on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
by Nakajima, Sadao; Murayama, Y.; International Symposium Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the LightFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-01-01
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Summary
Proceedings of the First through Fourth Intl Symposia on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of the New Technology (ISQMs) held every three years since 1983. DLC: Quantum theory.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Editors' Note | |
| Gauge Fields, Electromagnetism and the Bohm-Aharonov Effect | p. 3 |
| Non-Local Phenomena and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect | p. 8 |
| Electron Holography, Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Flux Quantization | p. 18 |
| The Superposition Principle in Macroscopic Systems | p. 27 |
| Metabistability in a SQUID and Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling | p. 36 |
| Fundamental Problems of Digital Information Processing | p. 47 |
| Critical Review of Theory of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics | p. 63 |
| Delayed-Choice Experiments and Bohr's Elementary Quantum Phenomenon | p. 72 |
| Pointer Basis, and Inhibition of Quantum Tunneling by Environment-Induced Superselection | p. 85 |
| Quantum Nondemolition Measurements | p. 94 |
| Experiments on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Type Correlations with Pairs of Visible Photons | p. 105 |
| Is Reductionism Tenable within Physics? | p. 116 |
| The Experiment in Classical and in Quantum Physics | p. 120 |
| Test of Quantum Mechanics by Matter Wave Interferometry | p. 132 |
| Delayed-Choice Experiments with the Neutron Interferometer | p. 144 |
| Quantum Hall Effect | p. 151 |
| Quantum Mechanics: Prospects and Problems | p. 163 |
| Quantum Measurements in Neutron Interferometry | p. 169 |
| The Two-Photon Polarisation Correlation of Metastable Hydrogen as Test between Quantum Mechanics and Local Realistic Theories | p. 184 |
| Proof of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Completely Shielded Magnetic Field | p. 191 |
| Fractional Quantum Statistics in Two-Dimensional Systems | p. 200 |
| Complex Phases in Quantum Mechanics | p. 210 |
| The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Long-Range Phase Coherence in Normal Metal Rings | p. 214 |
| Universal Conductance Fluctuations and Quantum Interference Effects in Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Systems | p. 228 |
| Electric Field Effect on Superconductivity in an Inversion Layer Proximity System | p. 239 |
| Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of Photon Number and Number-Phase Minimum Uncertainty State | p. 246 |
| The Current Status of Quantum Mechanics at the Macroscopic Level | p. 257 |
| Optical Manifestations of Berry's Topological Phases: Aharonov-Bohm-like Effects for the Photon | p. 271 |
| High Precision Determination of [alpha] and Quantum Electrodynamics for Nonrelativistic Systems | p. 284 |
| Observations on Conductance Quantization and Dephasing in Mesoscale Systems | p. 290 |
| Quantum Ballistic Electron Transport and Conductance Quantization in a Constricted Two-Dimensional Electron Gas | p. 301 |
| Status Report on the MQC Experiment: Observation of Ideal Quasiparticle Resistance in Josephson Junctions | p. 310 |
| Two Fundamental Results from Low-Temperature Experiments with One-Dimensional Arrays of Ultrasmall Tunnel Junctions | p. 321 |
| Normal to Superconducting Current Conversion in Mesoscopic Semiconductor-Superconductor Structure | p. 329 |
| Quantum Effects in Single-Atom and Single-Photon Experiments | p. 336 |
| Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology | p. 347 |
| The Evolution of Semiconductor Quantum Structures in Reduced Dimensionality - Do-It-Yourself Quantum Mechanics | p. 370 |
| Reversible Computation: Implications for Measurement, Communication, and Physical Law | p. 384 |
| A Study of Irreversible Loss of Information without Heat Generation | p. 389 |
| Reflections on the Development of Theoretical Physics | p. 399 |
| The Effect of Dissipation on Tunnelling | p. 406 |
| Quantum Diffusion in Metals | p. 414 |
| Tunneling Phenomena in Nuclear Physics | p. 422 |
| Vortices and Charges in Josephson Junction Arrays as Quantum Particles | p. 429 |
| Hall Effect at the Magnetic-Field-Tuned Superconductor-Insulator Transition | p. 435 |
| Conductivity near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition of a 2-Dimensional Bose-Hubbard System | p. 443 |
| Theory of Microscopic Mechanism and Related Exotic Phenomena of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy | p. 452 |
| Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Ferromagnetic Particles | p. 459 |
| Orbital Magnetic Response and Level Correlations in Mesoscopic Systems | p. 463 |
| Electron Holography and Flux Lines | p. 468 |
| Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Vortices in a Superconductor | p. 479 |
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