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This book presents current understanding of quantum mechanics, providing a historical introduction and discussing many of its interpretations.
List of contents
Foreword; Preface; 1. Historical perspective; 2. Present situation, remaining conceptual difficulties; 3. The theorem of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen; 4. Bell theorem; 5. Other inequalities, Cirelson's limit, signaling; 6. More theorems; 7. Quantum entanglement; 8. Applications of quantum entanglement; 9. Quantum measurement; 10. Experiments: quantum reduction seen in real time; 11. Various interpretations and reconstructions of quantum mechanics; 12. Conclusion; 13. Annex: basic mathematical tools of quantum mechanics; Appendix A. Mental content of the state vector; Appendix B. Bell inequalities in non-deterministic local theories; Appendix C. Attempting to construct a 'separable' quantum theory; Appendix D. Maximal probability for a state; Appendix E. The influence of pair selection; Appendix F. Impossibility of superluminal communication; Appendix G. Quantum measurements at different times; Appendix H. Manipulating and preparing additional variables; Appendix I. Correlations and trajectories in Bohmian theory; Appendix J. Models for spontaneous reduction of the state vector; Appendix K. Consistent families of histories; Appendix L. Attractive Schrödinger dynamics; References; Index.
About the author
Franck Laloë is a Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and belongs to the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is co-author of the volumes of Quantum Mechanics (1977), with Clause Cohen-Tannoudji and Bernard Diu, one of the most well-known textbooks on quantum mechanics.
