Quantum Theory and Measurement / / ed. by John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek.

The forty-nine papers collected here illuminate the meaning of quantum theory as it is disclosed in the measurement process. Together with an introduction and a supplemental annotated bibliography, they discuss issues that make quantum theory, overarching principle of twentieth-century physics, appe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Series in Physics ; 40
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Physical Description:1 online resource (842 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Bohr And Einstein In Dialogue
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments And Copyright Information
  • I. Questions of Principle
  • II. Interpretations of The Act of Measurement
  • III. "Hidden Variables" Versus "Phenomenon" and Complementarity
  • IV. Field Measurements
  • V. Irreversibility And Quantum Theory
  • VI. Accuracy of Measurements: Quantum Limitations
  • Guide to some further Literature
  • Bibliography