Einstein’s Struggles with Quantum Theory A Reappraisal /

• Main Authors: Home, Dipankar (Author), Whitaker, Andrew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

Einstein’s Struggles with Quantum Theory: A Reappraisal by Dipankar Home and Andrew Whitaker provides a detailed account of Albert Einstein’s thinking in regard to quantum physics. Until recently, most of Einstein’s views on quantum physics were dismissed and even ridiculed; some critics even sugges...

Table of Contents:

• A Setting the Scene
• The Philosophical Background Einstein and Mach
• Einstein and Quantum Theory: The Early Years
• Quantum Mechanics and its Fundamental Issues
• The Standard Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
• B Einstein Confronting Quantum Theory from 1925
• Einstein’s Approaches to Quantum Theory 1925-1935
• EPR and its Aftermath
• Einstein and the Macroscopic Limit of Quantum Mechanics
• Summary of Einstein’s Views
• C Denouement
• Bell’s Contributions and Quantum Non-locality
• Non-standard Quantum Interpretations
• Einstein and Quantum Information Theory
• Bridging the Quantum-Classical Divide
• D Looking Forward
• Quantum Foundations: General Outlook
• Assessment of Einstein’s Views and Contributions.