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INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

INTERPRETATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS:

• General: (See also DETERMINISM):
  • Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics [Wikipedia]
  • Quantum Measurement FAQ with excellent selected references, by Paul Budnik [Mountain Math]

  • Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue by Josef M. Jauch [Indiana, 1974]
  • Quantum Theory and Measurement edited by J. Archibald Wheeler and W. H. Zurek [Princeton, 1983]
  • Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics by J. S. Bell [Cambridge, 1987]
  • Veiled Reality by B. d'Espagnat [Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995]
  • The Nine Lives of Schroedinger's Cat by Zvi Schreiber [Imperial College London M.Sc. dissertation, 1995]
  • Foundations and Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics by Gennaro Auletta [Singapore: World Scientific, 2001]
  • Between classical and quantum by N. P. Landsman [Handbook of the Philosophy of Physics, Elsevier (2005)]
  • The Quantum Measurement Problem: State of Play by David Wallace [2007/12]

• General: Experimental Tests:
  • Collapse challenge for interpretations of quantum mechanics by Arnold Neumaier, 2005/05

• General: Experimental Tests: Afshar's Experiment; Bohr-Einstein debate; EPR Experiment; Popper's Experiment;

• Types: BOHM-DE BROGLIE; COPENHAGEN; DECOHERENT HISTORIES; FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRALS; GEOMETRIC; MANY WORLDS; TRANSACTIONAL;

• Type: HIDDEN VARIABLE:
  • Research on Hidden Variable Theories: a review of recent progresses by Marco Genovese [Phys. Reports 413, 319 (2005)]

• Type: PHYSICALLY COLLAPSING WAVE FUNCTION:
  • Collapse Models by Philip Pearle [in F. Petruccione and H. P. Breuer, eds., Open Systems and Measurement in Relativistic Quantum Theory, (Berlin: Springer, 1999)]
  • The "Unromantic Pictures" of Quantum Theory by Roderich Tumulka [2006/07]

• Type: QUANTISED DETECTOR NETWORKS:
  • Quantized Detector Networks: A review of recent developments by George Jaroszkiewicz [2007/09]

• Type: TWO STATE-VECTOR (Aharonov-Bergmann-Lebowitz):
  • The Two-State Vector Formalism by Lev Vaidman [2007/06]

• Type: WIGNER (PHASE SPACE) INTERPRETATION:
  • Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space by Ali Mohammad Nassimi [2007/06]

• Aspects: COUNTERFACTUAL PROPOSITIONS:
  • Counterfactuals in Quantum Mechanics by Lev Vaidman [2007/09]

• Aspects: PARADOXES:
  • Errors and paradoxes in quantum mechanics by Daniel Rohrlich [2007/08]

• Aspects: PARADOXES: SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT:
  • Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik by Erwin Schrödinger [Naturwiss. 23, 807, 823, and 844 (1935)]
    • English translation by John D. Trimmer [Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 124, 323 (1980)]

  • Schrödinger's SQUID:
    • Physicists unveil Schrödinger's SQUID by Adrian Cho [Science 287, 31 (2000)]
    • New Life for Schrödinger's Cat by Anthony J. Leggett [Physics World, August 2000]
    • Quantum superposition of distinct macroscopic states (Detection of a Schroedinger's Cat State in an rf-SQUID) by Jonathan R. Friedman et al. [Nature 406, 43 (2000)]
    • Quantum Superposition of Macroscopic Persistent-Current States by C. H. van der Wal et al. [Science 290, 773 (2000)]

  • Re: OPTICS:
    • Quantum Superpositions and Schrödinger Cat States in Quantum Optics by C. C. Gerry and P. L. Knight [Am. J. Phys. 65, 964 (1997)]

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