Quantum Future From Volta and Como to Present and Beyond. Proceedings of Xth Max Born Symposium Held in Przesieka, Poland, 24-27 September 1997 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blanchard, Philippe (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jadczyk, Arkadiusz (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 517
• Subjects: Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum physics.; Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This volume presents detailed discussions of a number of unsolved conceptual and technical issues arising, in particular, in the foundations of quantum theory and the philosophy of science. The 14 contributions capture a wide variety of viewpoints and backgrounds. Some chapters deal primarily with t...

Table of Contents:

• Continuous fuzzy measurements and visualization of a quantum transition
• Quantum jumps revisited: An overview of quantum trajectory theory
• Problems in objectizing
• Quantum chaos, algorithmic paradigm and irreversibility
• Objects, events and localization
• Observing the decoherence of the meter in a measurement: a variation on schrödinger's cat experiment
• Toward the demolition of a computational quantum brain
• Decoherence: Concepts and examples
• Metrical quantization
• Against measurement? - On the concept of information
• On interpretation and decoherence
• Quantum ontology and mind-matter synthesis
• Time as an observable
• Quantum optics of a single atom.