Decoherence: Theoretical, Experimental, and Conceptual Problems

Elements of Environmental Decoherence....Pages 1-17
The Meaning of Decoherence * ....Pages 19-42
Continuous Fuzzy Measurement of Energy: Realization and Application....Pages 43-53
Slow Decoherence of Superpositions of Macroscopically Distinct States....Pages 55-65
Grey Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates as Mesoscopic Particles....Pages 67-75
Decoherence Through Coupling to the Radiation Field....Pages 77-86
States, Symmetries and Superselection....Pages 87-100
Decoherence in Situations Involving the Gravitational Field....Pages 101-112
Moving Quantum Agents in a Finite Environment....Pages 113-123
Mathematical Aspects of Decoherence....Pages 125-136
Decoherence and Continuous Measurements: Phenomenology and Models....Pages 137-147
The Problem of Decoherence and the EPR-Paradox....Pages 149-159
Asymptotically Disjoint Quantum States....Pages 161-178
Dynamical Localization and Decoherence....Pages 179-189
Quantum Cryptography and Long Distance Bell Experiments: How to Control Decoherence....Pages 191-200
Exploration of the Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics by Charged Particle Interferometry....Pages 201-212
Single Ions in Paul Traps....Pages 213-231
Time-Convolutionless Stochastic Unraveling of Non-Markovian Quantum Master Equations....Pages 233-241
Emergence of Classicality: From Collapse Phenomenologies to Hybrid Dynamics....Pages 243-250
EEQT - Formalism and Applications....Pages 251-258
An Application of EEQT: Tunneling Times....Pages 259-269
Non-Markovian Quantum State Diffusion and Open System Dynamics....Pages 271-280
Quantum Theory Without Waves: A Way of Eliminating Quantum Mechanical Paradoxes?....Pages 281-289
Decoherence as an Irreversible Process....Pages 291-298
Many Minds and Single Mind Interpretations of Quantum Theory....Pages 299-307
Decoherence and Einselection....Pages 309-341