QUANTUM COHERENCE AND REALITY

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• 1. After-Banquet Talk in Honor of Aharonov’s 60th Birthday

• 2. Aharonov–Bohm Effect and Geometric Phases

  • Dynamic Observation of Flux Lines Based on the AB Effect Principle

  • Signs and Miracles of the Aharonov–Bohm Effect

  • Aharonov Effects for Two Slits and Separated Oscillatory Fields Interferences

  • Atom Interferometers

  • Faster than Fourier

  • Berry’s Phase, Mesoscopic Conductivity and Local Forces

  • New Results in the Theory of Landau–Zener Transitions

  • Quantum Mechanics of the Electric Charge

  • Magnetic Charges and Local Duality Symmetry

• 3. Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter

  • Quantum Phase in Action

  • Liberating Exotic Slaves

  • Persistent Currents in Normal Metals

• 4. Black Holes and Quantum Gravity

  • Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in the Center of Our Galaxy

  • Black Holes, Wormholes, and the Disappearance of Global Charge

  • The Conflict Between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

  • Unitarity of the Black Hole Scattering Matrix

  • Entropy Generation in Quantum Gravity and Black Hole Remnants

  • Black Holes and Information Loss in 2D Dilaton Gravity

• 5. Gravitation and Quantum Mechanics

  • Topological Phases and Their Duality in Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields

  • Disordered Gravitation: Localization and Diffusion Limited Dynamics of the Early Universe

• 6. Quantum Non-Locality and Geometry

  • The Superposition Principle in Multi-Particle Systems

  • Non-Locality and Objectivity in Quantum State Reduction

  • A Non-Polarization EPR Experiment: Observation of High-Visibility Franson Interference Fringes

  • Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Correlations in Higher Dimensions

  • Time as a Derived Quantity in the Micromaser

  • Toward “It from Bit”

• 7. Spin and Statistics

  • (Para)Bosons, (Para)Fermions, Quons and Other Beasts in the Menagerie of Particle Statistics

  • The Quantum Theory of Measurement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

  • Time Reversal of Spin–Spin Couplings

  • Electromagnetic Velocity and Acceleration of Neutrons

• 8. Quantum Reality and Phenomenology

  • A New Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

  • Measurement of Nonlocal Variables Without Breaking Causality

  • Quantum Anomalies and Three Families

  • Experiments Pursuant to Determining the Duration of Barrier Traversal in Quantum Tunneling

  • Global Quantization of Vacuum Angle and Magnetic Monopoles as a New Solution to the Strong CP Problem