Waves and Particles in Light and Matter

Augusto Garuccio, Alwyn Van der Merwe (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

628 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4613-6088-9 (ISBN)

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From September 24 through 30, 1992 the Workshop on "Waves and Parti cles in Light and Matter" was held in the Italian city of Trani in celebration of the centenary of Louis de Broglie's birth. As is well known, the relationship between quantum theory and ob jective reality was one of the main threads running through the researches of this French physicist. It was therefore in a fitting tribute to him on his 90th birthday that ten years ago an international conference on the same subject was convened in Perugia. On that occasion, physicists from all over the world interested in the problematics of wave-particle duality engaged in thoughtful debates (the proceedings of which were subsequently published) on recent theoretical and experimental developments in our understanding of the foundations of quantum mechanics. This time around, about 120 scientists, coming from 5 continents, in the warm and pleasant atmosphere of Trani's Colonna Conference Center focussed their discussions on recent results concerned with the EPR para dox, matter-interferometry, reality of de Broglie's waves, photon detection, macroscopic quantum coherence, alternative theories to usual quantum mechanics, special relativity, state reduction, and other related topics. The workshop was organized in plenary sessions, round tables, and poster sessions, and the present volume collects most-but not all-of the presented papers. A number of acknowledgements are due. We thank, first of all, the contributors, without whose constant dedication this volume could not have been published.

1. The Great Veil, Reality, and Louis de Broglie: Personal Memories 1.- 2. The Fallacy of the Arguments against Local Realism in Quantum Phenomena.- 3. Restoring Locality with Faster-than-Light Velocities.- 4. The Wave-Particle Duality and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect.- 5. De Broglie’s Wave in Space and Time.- 6. Interferometry with De Broglie Waves.- 7. Quantum Mechanics of Ultracold Neutrons.- 8. The Physical Interpretation of Special Relativity.- 9. Quantum Neutron Optics.- 10. Some Comments on the De Broglie-Bohm Picture by an Admiring Spectator.- 11. The Relationship between the Dirac Velocity Operator and the de Broglie Postulate.- 12. Optics and Interferometry with Atoms.- 13. Louis de Broglie’s Wave-Particle Dualism: Historical and Philosophical Remarks.- 14. Compatible Statistical Interpretation of Interference in Double-Slit Interferometer.- 15. Wave Function Structure and Transactional Interpretation.- 16. Intersubjectivity, Relativistic Invariance, and Conditionals (Classical and Quantal).- 17. Quantization as a Homogeneous Wave Effect.- 18. In Quest of de Broglie Waves.- 19. Why Local Realism?.- 20. Bohm’s Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory.- 21. Proposal for an Experiment to Detect Macroscopic Quantum Coherence with a System of SQUIDS.- 22. On Longitudinal Free Spacetime Electric and Magnetic Fields in the Einstein-de Broglie Theory of Light.- 23. Time-Delayed Interferometry with Nuclear Resonance.- 24. A Counterexample of Bohr’s Wave-Particle Complementarity.- 25. Classical Electromagnetic Theory of Diffraction and Interference: Edge, Single-Slit and Double-Slit Solutions.- 26. A Quasi-Ergodic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- 27. De Broglie Waves and Natural Units.- 28. A Classical Model for Wave-Particle Duality.- 29. Towards a Philosophy ofObjects.- 30. The Energy-Momentum Transport Wave Function.- 31. The Spacetime Structure of Quantum Objects.- 32. Høffding and Bohr: Waves or Particles.- 33. Photonic Tunneling Experiments: Superluminal Tunneling.- 34. Possible Tests of Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics.- 35. Detection of Empty Waves Contradicts either Special Relativity or Quantum Mechanics.- 36. Interferometry with Very Cold Neutrons.- 37. Velocity-Symmetrizing Synchronization and Conventional Aspects of Relativity.- 38. Trajectories of Particles Interacting with Environments.- 39. On the Wave System Theory of the EPR Experiment.- 40. CFD or not CFD? That is the Question.- 41. Quantum Particle as Seen in Light Scattering.- 42. e2 = ?h, the Only Physically Justified Formulation of Electron Charge, and the Resulting Electron Energy Paradigm.- 43. Spacetime Approach to Weinberg-Salam Model: Waves and Particles in Spacetime Structure.- 44. Computer Portrayals of the Sine-Gordon Breather as a Model of the de Broglie Double Solution.- 45. Phenomenology of a Subquantum, Realistic, Relativistic Theory.- 46. p = h/?? W = hv? A Riddle Prior to any Attempt at Grand Unification.- 47. Informational Experiments with Microparticles and Atoms.- 48. The Principles of Classical Mechanics and their Actuality in Contemporary Microphysics.- 49. Ascribed to and Described by: Which is More Important?.- 50. Quantization of Generalized Lagrangians: A New Derivation of Dirac’s Equation.- 51. Quantum Transition and Temporal Description.- Author Index.

Zusatzinfo	X, 628 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-4613-6088-9 / 1461360889
ISBN-13	978-1-4613-6088-9 / 9781461360889
Zustand	Neuware