The quantum challenge : modern research on the foundations of quantum mechanics / George Greenstein, Arthur G. Zajonc.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index.

Matter Waves -- An Experiment -- A Second Experiment -- Locality -- Beyond the Electron -- Neutrons -- Atoms -- Bose-Einstein Condensates -- The Experiment -- Quantum Theory of Two-Slit Interference -- Critique of the Quantum-Mechanical Account -- Photons -- Do Photons Exist? -- Detection and the Quantum of Light -- Photoelectric Effect -- Anticoincidences -- The Hanbury-Brown and Twiss Experiment -- Photons at Last -- Remarks -- Wave-Particle Duality for Single Photons -- The Mystery of Wave-Particle Duality -- Delayed Choice -- The Uncertainty Principle -- The Pfleegor-Mandel Experiment -- Two Lasers, One Photon -- The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle -- Uncertainty in the Pfleegor-Mandel Experiment -- Reflections on the Uncertainty Principle -- Quantum Uncertainty versus Classical Ignorance -- Interpretation of the Uncertainty Principle -- The Uncertainty Principle and Causality -- The Uncertainty Principle and Descriptions of Natural Phenomena -- Some Consequences of the Uncertainty Principle -- Atoms -- Nuclei -- Trajectories -- The Energy-Time Uncertainty Relation -- Average Properties of Systems -- Lifetimes and Line Widths -- Time and Frequency Standards -- More on Causality: The Uncertainty Principle and an Ambiguity in Time -- Origin of the Energy-Time Uncertainty Relation -- Squeezed Light and the Detection of Gravitational Radiation -- Gravitational Radiation -- Squeezed States of the Simple Harmonic Oscillator -- Squeezed States of Light -- Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements.

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