QUANTUM THEORY: Reconsideration of Foundations - 4

Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations - 4

Guillaume Adenier, Växjö University, International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics and Cognitive Sciences, Växjö, Sweden ; Andrei Yu. Khrennikov, Växjö University, International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics, Engineering and Cognitive Sciences, Växjö, Sweden ; Pekka Lahti, University ofTurku, Department of Physics, Turku, Finland ; Vladimir I. Man'ko, P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Moscow ; Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conference Location and Date: Växjö, Sweden, 11-16 June 2007

Subseries: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics; Mathematical and Statistical Physics

Published December 2007; ISBN 978-0-7354-0479-3 One Volume, Print; 366 pages; 8.5 X 11 inches, single column; Hardcover; $152.00

Readership: People working in different domains of science and interested in foundations of QM: first of all physicists and mathematicians as well as philosophers, also psychologists and cognitive scientists who are interested in applications of QM formalism, engineers (especially optical engineers). The book will also be of use to graduate students.

This conference was devoted to the 80 years of the Copenhagen Interpretation, and to the question of the relevance of the Copenhagen interpretation for the present understanding of quantum mechanics. It is in this framework that fundamental questions raised by quantum mechanics, especially in information theory, were discussed throughout the conference. As has become customary in our series of conference in Växjö, we were glad to welcome a fruitful assembly of theoretical physicists, experimentalists, mathematicians and even philosophers interested in the foundations of probability and physics. The nature of quantum fluctuations---in the form of Stochastic Electrodynamics or in other approaches to stochastic quantum mechanics---was also a central topic discussed during the conference, especially during debates. We should also mention talks on the completeness or incompleteness of quantum mechanics; on macroscopic quantum systems; on Bell's inequality, entanglement and experiments on quantum nonlocality (and locality); on Bohmian mechanics; on the connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity; on quantum probability; on quantum computing, quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography technologies; and more generally on the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics and on the philosophical problems raised by its interpretations.

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