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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741175503321

Titolo

Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen : can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? / / edited by Claus Kiefer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-030-47037-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 pages)

Collana

Classic Texts in the Sciences

Disciplina

530.12

Soggetti

Reality

Quantum theory

Physics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Backstory -- 1.1 Einstein's Contributions to Early Quantum Theory -- 1.2 Interpretations of Quantum Theory Before 1935 -- 1.3 The Bohr-Einstein Debate During the Solvay Conferences -- 1.4 John von Neumann and the Wave Function Collapse -- 2 The Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen Paper -- 2.1 Reprint of the Paper -- 2.2 Critical Summary -- 2.3 Bohm's Version of the Thought Experiment -- 2.4 The Contributions of Einstein's Co-Authors -- 2.5 Critical Evaluation -- 3 Translation of Einstein's 1948 Paper -- 3.1 Quantum Mechanics and Reality -- 3.2 Summary -- 4 Reception and Impact of the EPR Paper -- 4.1 Reprint of Bohr's Paper -- 4.2 Bohr's Reply -- 4.3 Schrödinger and Entanglement -- 4.4 Pauli and Heisenberg -- 4.5 Some More Early Responses -- 5 Further Developments -- 5.1 Bohm's Theory -- 5.2 The Bell Inequalities -- 5.3 The Many-Worlds Interpretation -- 5.4 The Classical Limit -- 6 Future Relevance -- A The Formalism of Quantum Theory -- References.