Protective measurement and quantum reality : toward a new understanding of quantum mechanics / [edited by] Shan Gao.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: xv, 233 p. : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN: - 9781107069633 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Protective measurements : an introduction / Shan Gao --
2. Protective measurements of the wave function of a single system / Lev Vaidman --
3. Protective measurement, postseletion and the Heisenberg representation / Yakir Aharonov and Eliahu Cohen --
4. Protective and state measurement : a review / Gennaro Auletta --
5. Determination of the stationary basis from protective measurement on a single system / Lajos Diósi --
6. Weak measurements, the energy-momentum tensor and the Bohm approach / Robert Flack and Basil J. Hiley --
7. Measurement and metaphysics / Peter J. Lewis --
8. Protective measurements and the explanatory gambit / Michael Dickson --
9. Realism and instrumentalism about the wave function : how should we choose? / Mauro Dorato and Federico Laudisa --
10. Protective measurements and the PBR theorem / Guy Hetzroni and Daniel Rohrlich --
11. The roads not taken : empty waves, wavefunction collapse and protective measurement in quantum theory / Peter Holland --
12. Implications of protective measurements on De Broglie-Bohm trajectories / Aurelien Drezet --
13. Entanglement, scaling, and the meaning of the wave function in protective measurement Maximilian Schlosshauer and Tangereen / V.B. Claringbold --
14. Protective measurements and the nature of the wave function within the primitive ontology approach / Vincent Lam --
15. Reality and meaning of the wave function / Shan Gao --
Index.
With contributions from two of the original discoverers of protective measurement, this book investigates its broad applications and deep implications.
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