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Tables of Contents for The Quantum Challenge
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
2
Prologue
xi
1 Matter Waves
1
20
1.1 An Experiment
1
4
1.2 A Second Experiment
5
2
1.3 Locality
7
1
1.4 Neutrons and Atoms
8
2
1.5 Quantum Theory of Two-Slit Interference
10
6
1.6 Critique of the Quantum-Mechanical Account
16
5
2 Photons
21
22
2.1 Do Photons Exist?
22
13
2.2 Wave-Particle Duality for Single Photons
35
8
3 The Uncertainty Principle
43
38
3.1 The Pfleegor-Mandel Experiment
43
7
3.2 Reflections on the Uncertainty Principle
50
4
3.3 Some Consequences of the Uncertainty Principle
54
3
3.4 The Energy-Time Uncertainty Relation
57
8
3.5 Squeezed Light and the Detection of Gravitational Radiation
65
12
3.6 Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements
77
4
4 Complementarity
81
24
4.1 Bohr's Discovery of Complementarity
82
3
4.2 Einstein's Attacks on Complementarity
85
7
4.3 The New Paradigm: Information
92
11
4.4 Concluding Remarks
103
2
5 The EPR Paradox and Bell's Theorem
105
26
5.1 The EPR Argument
108
7
5.2 The BKS Theorem and Contextuality
115
2
5.3 Hidden-Variable Theories
117
5
5.4 Bell's Theorem
122
9
6 Testing Bell's Inequalities: Entangled States
131
26
6.1 Tests of Bell's Inequalities
132
12
6.2 Bohm's Nonlocal Hidden-Variable Theory
144
4
6.3 The Mystery of the EPR Correlations
148
2
6.4 Does Quantum Nonlocality Violate the Principle of Relativity?
150
2
6.5 Quantum Nonlocality: A New Source and a New Experiment
152
3
6.6 Comments on Quantum Nonlocality
155
2
7 Schrodinger's Cat
157
24
7.1 What Is the Cat Paradox?
158
1
7.2 Superpositions and Mixtures: A More Technical Statement of the Cat Paradox
159
1
7.3 Further Discussion of the Difference Between Superpositions and Mixtures: Spin
160
1
7.4 Why Is Quantum Behavior Not Observed in the Large-Scale World?
161
5
7.5 Decoherence
166
5
7.6 Laboratory Realizations of Macroscopic Quantum Behavior
171
10
8 Measurement
181
30
8.1 The Measurement Problem
181
12
8.2 The Active Nature of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics
193
11
8.3 Attempts to Solve the Measurement Problem
204
7
Epilogue
211
2
References
213
6
Index
219