Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory: A Conference Held in Honor of Professor John A. Wheeler (Annals of the New York Academy of Science 755)

1. Preface (pages xiii–xiv)......Page xiii
by SAUL YOUSSEF......Page by-whom
1. Two-Photon Downconversion Experiments (pages 1–12)......Page p1
2. Quantum Optics : Quantum, Classical, & Metaphysical Aspects (pages 13–26)......Page p13
3. 2nd-O. Photon-Photon Correlations and Atomic Spectroscopy (pages 28–39)......Page p28
4. EPR & 2-Photon Interference Experiments Using Type-II Parametric Downconversion (pages 40–60)......Page p40
5. Frustrated Downconversion: Virtual or Real Photons? (pages 61–72)......Page p61
1. New Tests of Quantum Theory (pages 73–86)......Page p73
2. Quantum Measurement in Quantum Optics (pages 87–90)......Page p87
3. Entangling Photons Radiated by Independent Pulsed Sources (pages 91–102)......Page p91
4. Wave Fn. of Single Wave Packet? : Brownian Mo. & Collapse, Rep. Weak QND Measurements (pages 103–109)......Page p103
5. Quantum State Engineering in Pump-coupled High-Q Micromasers (pages 110–120)......Page p110
6. Two-Photon “Ghost” Image & Interference-Diffraction (pages 121–132)......Page p121
1. Experiments with Single Atoms in Cavities & Traps (pages 133–161)......Page p133
2. A Heisenberg Microscope for Atoms (pages 162–172)......Page p162
3. Stern-Gerlach Atomic Interferometry, variable Magnetic Fields (pages 173–181)......Page p173
4. Possible Quantum Revivals in Long-Time Spin Dynamics of 3He-4He Solutions (pages 182–191)......Page p182
1. Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules (pages 192–216)......Page p192
2. Observations of the Wave Nature of an Ultracold Atom (pages 217–226)......Page p217
3. Recent Advances in Electron Interferometry (pages 227–240)......Page p227
4. Neutron Interferometry Tests of Quantum Theory (pages 241–262)......Page p241
5. More Quantum Information due to Postselection in Neutron Interferometry (pages 263–287)......Page p263
6. Tests of Foundations of QM Using Neutrons: The Scalar A-B Effect (pages 288–292)......Page p288
7. Diffraction in Time & New Type of Interferometry with Nonseparated Beams (pages 293–302)......Page p293
1. Two-State Quantum Asymptotics (pages 303–317)......Page p303
2. Degeneracies & Mirror Symmetries in Polygonal Quantum Billiards (pages 318–329)......Page p318
3. On the Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Neutrons (pages 330–334)......Page p330
1. Quantum Zeno Effect as a Purely Dynamical Process (pages 335–352)......Page p335
2. Some Studies about Quantum Zeno Effect (pages 353–360)......Page p353
3. Protective Measurements (pages 361–373)......Page p361
4. Particle Spectroscopy, Appl. Michelson’s Analysis to de Broglie Waves (pages 374 ...)......Page p374
5. Experimental Realization of Interaction-free Measurements (pages 383–393)......Page p383
6. Negative Kinetic Energy between Past & Future State Vectors (pages 394–399)......Page p394
1. Superluminal (but Causal) Effects in Quantum Physics (pages 400–416)......Page p400
2. Qualitative View of Quantum Shot Noise (pages 417–428)......Page p417
3. Proposed New Polarization Correlation Test of Local Realism (pages 429–437)......Page p429
4. Expt. to Decide between Causal & Copenhagen Interps. of QM (pages 438–444)......Page p438
1. Relativistic Quantum Measurements (pages 445–450)......Page p445
2. Quantum Theory, Relativity, and the Bohm Model (pages 451–463)......Page p451
3. The Yilmaz Theory of Gravity & Its Compatibility with Quantum Theory (pages 464–475)......Page p464
4. Gravity & Quantum Field Theory : A Modern Synthesis (pages 476–499)......Page p476
5. Gravitational Fluctuations: Decoherence & Stochastic Jumps (pages 500–505)......Page p500
1. Spontaneous Wave Packet Reduction (pages 506–523)......Page p506
2. The Quantum State Diffusion Model of Open Systems (pages 524–533)......Page p524
3. Order Parameter for Quantum Measurements & Related Topics (pages 534–544)......Page p534
4. Quantum Interference, State Engineering, & Quantum Eraser (pages 545–559)......Page p545
5. Varieties of Quantum Measurement (pages 560–569)......Page p560
6. Kochen-Dieks “No-Collapse” Interp. of QM Indep. of Measurement Problem (pages 570–578)......Page p570
7. Limitation to Quantum Measurements of Space-Time Distances (pages 579–584)......Page p579
1. Two-Particle versus Three-Particle EPR Experiments (pages 585–599)......Page p585
2. EPR Argument & Nonlocality w/o Inequalities for Single Photon (pages 600–615)......Page p600
3. The Best Version of Bell's Theorem (pages 616–623)......Page p616
4. Interference of Single Photons from Separate Sources (pages 624–631)......Page p624
5. Parametric Downconversion, Beam-Splitters, & Bell's Inequality (pages 632–640)......Page p632
6. Three-Particle Bell Inequalities (pages 641–645)......Page p641
7. A GHZ Argument for a Single Spinless Particle (pages 646–653)......Page p646
1. The Entanglement of Virtual Photons (pages 654–663)......Page p654
2. Multipath Interferometry of the Biphoton (pages 664–674)......Page p664
3. Degree of Entanglement (pages 675–679)......Page p675
4. Stats. of Entangled-Photon Coinc., Parametric Downconversion (pages 680–686)......Page p680
1. Lattice Dyn. Completely Entangled St., Appl. to Communication Schemes (pages 687–697)......Page p687
2. Sending Classical Bits via Quantum Its (pages 698–705)......Page p698
3. Bounds for Accessible Information in QM (pages 706–714)......Page p706
4. Qm Teleportation & Qm Computation Based on Cavity QED (pages 715–725)......Page p715
1. Review of Decoherent Histories Approach to QM (pages 726–740)......Page p726
2. Decoherence & Vacuum Fluctuations (pages 741–747)......Page p741
1. Nature's Ultimate Cryptogram? (pages 748–756)......Page p748
2. Quantum Chaos & Statistical Mechanics (pages 757–760)......Page p757
1. Why Not Take All Observables as Beables? (pages 761–767)......Page p761
2. Vacuum Correlations & Outcome Dependence in Algebraic QFT (pages 768–785)......Page p768
3. Geometry of Quantum States (pages 786–797)......Page p786
4. Local Propensities & Quantum Theory (pages 798–811)......Page p798
5. A Quantum Theory of Angle (pages 812–821)......Page p812
6. The Integration of Mind into Physics (pages 822–833)......Page p822
7. Compu. Power, Undecidability, Consistency Phen., & Practical Uses of Paradoxes (pages 834–841)......Page p834
1. Pump-coupled Micromasers (pages 842–844)......Page p842
2. MQC : Det. Macroscopic Quantum Coherence with a System of SQUIDs (pages 845–847)......Page p845
3. Failure of Einsteinian Reality, Unequal-Arm Interferometer (pages 848–849)......Page p848
4. “Which-Path” Experiments (pages 850–854)......Page p850
5. Quantization of the Wave Function (pages 855–857)......Page p855
6. Neutron Multiray Reflection (pages 858–860)......Page p858
7. Resonant Expansions & the Time Evolution of Decay (pages 861–862)......Page p861
8. Role of the Schrödinger Cat State in Quantum Information (pages 863–865)......Page p863
9. Geometrical Phase Effects & Bohm's Quantum Potential (pages 866–867)......Page p866
10. Noise Limits for Nonlinear, Phase-invariant Amplifiers (pages 868–870)......Page p868
11. Non-Abelian Quantum Kinematic Foundations of Qm. Dynamics (pages 871–872)......Page p871
12. Entangled Entanglement (pages 873–876)......Page p873
13. Expts., Infl. of E-M & Gravito-Inertial Potentials & Fields on Quantum Phase (pages 877–879)......Page p877
14. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox & Pauli Exclusion Principle (pages 880–881)......Page p880
15. Interplay of Aharonov-Bohm & Berry Phases, Quantum Cloud of Charge (pages 882–887)......Page p882
16. Effective Mass-enhanced Deflection of Neutrons in Noninertial Frames (pages 888–891)......Page p888
17. Hidden-Variables Model & Nonlocality in the Bohm/EPR Experiment (pages 892–895)......Page p892
18. First-Order Dark Matter & the Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (pages 896–897)......Page p896
19. Geometric Phase Shifts in Pilot-Wave Theory (pages 898–899)......Page p898
20. Tunneling Times & Weak Measurements (pages 900–903)......Page p900
21. Is Quantum Mechanics an Exotic Probability Theory? (pages 904–905)......Page p904