The wave-particle dualism: A tribute to Louis de Broglie on his 90th birthday

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
De Broglie’s Initial Conception of De Broglie Waves....Pages 1-25
Wave-Particle Duality of Light: A Current Perspective....Pages 27-67
Wave-Particle Dualism in Matter Wave Interferometry....Pages 69-83
Neutron Wave Optics Studied with Ultracold Neutrons....Pages 85-99
„Gespensterfelder“....Pages 101-128
On the Possibility of Realising a Low Intensity Interference Experiment with a Determination of the Particle Trajectory....Pages 129-137
From Ghost to Real Waves: A Proposed Solution to the Wave-Particle Dilemma....Pages 139-148
Permanence of the Corpuscular Appearance and Non Linearity of the Wave Equation....Pages 149-172
Could Solitons be Adiabatic Invariants Attached to Certain Non Linear Equations ?....Pages 173-182
Introduction of the Chronon in the Theory of Electron and the Wave-Particle Duality....Pages 183-213
The Wave-Particle Duality as an Interplay between Order and Chaos....Pages 215-229
Structures in Semiclassical Spectra: A Question of Scale....Pages 231-252
Ray Optics for Diffraction: A Useful Paradox in a Path Integral Context....Pages 253-272
Atomic Collision Experiments at the Border Line between Classical and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 273-290
On the Superposition Principle and its Physics Content....Pages 291-295
The Probabilistic Roots of the Quantum Mechanical Paradoxes....Pages 297-330
Causality and Symmetry....Pages 331-340
A Critical Analysis of the Quantum Theory of Measurement....Pages 341-366
Quantum Interference of Probabilities and Hidden Variable Theories....Pages 367-375
Experimental Tests of Bell’s Inequalities....Pages 377-390
A New Approach to Testing the Separability in Microphysics: Rapisarda’s Experiment....Pages 391-396
On the Possibility of Extending the Tests of Quantum Mechanical Correlations....Pages 397-412
How do we have to Change Quantum Mechanics in Order to Describe Separated Systems?....Pages 413-417
On the Four-Dimensional Character of Micro-Physical Phenomena....Pages 419-431
Dynamics of the Reduction of the Statevector....Pages 433-456
CPT Revisted: A Manifestly Covariant Presentation....Pages 457-483
Wave-Particle Duality in a Quark Model....Pages 485-497
Destruction of Coherence in Nondemolition Monitoring: Quantum “Watchdog Effect” in Gravity Wave Detectors....Pages 499-514
Nonlocal Hidden Variables and Nonlocal Gauge Theories....Pages 515-528
A Finite Particle Number Approach to Physics....Pages 529-536
Back Matter....Pages 537-556
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