Time S Arrows Quantum Measurement And Superluminal Behavior

An introduction to the arrow of time and a new, related, theory of quantum measurement.

This edited book presents the problems of time and direction from an interdisciplinary point of view, concentrating in particular on the following relations: • Time and physics • Time, philosophy and psychology • Time, mathematics and information theory It is a unique contribution by philosophers and scientists who are active in mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, information theory and psychology. Questions such as the existence of a Big Bang, the neurobiological basis regarding the coexistence of free will and determinism, intercultural aspects of time, mathematical models of time, psychopathological features of time, and micro reversibility versus macroscopic irreversibility are studied. It also provides a truly interdisciplinary study of the problematic 'arrow of time'.

This volume includes new topics such as the stochastic limit approach to nonequilibrium states, a new algebraic approach to relativistic nonequilibrium local states, classical and quantum features of weak chaos, transports in quantum billiards, the Welcher-Weg puzzle with a decaying atom, and the topics related to the quantum Zeno effect.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

This volume includes new topics such as the stochastic limit approach to nonequilibrium states, a new algebraic approach to relativistic nonequilibrium local states, classical and quantum features of weak chaos, transports in quantum billiards, the Welcher-Weg puzzle with a decaying atom, and the topics related to the quantum Zeno effect.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

Statistical mechanics attempts to explain the behaviour of macroscopic physical systems in terms of the mechanical properties of their constituents. Although it is one of the fundamental theories of physics, it has received little attention from philosophers of science. Nevertheless, it raises philosophical questions of fundamental importance on the nature of time, chance and reduction. Most philosophical issues in this domain relate to the question of the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics. This book addresses issues inherent in this reduction: the time-asymmetry of thermodynamics and its absence in statistical mechanics; the role and essential nature of chance and probability in this reduction when thermodynamics is non-probabilistic; and how, if at all, the reduction is possible. Compiling contributions on current research by experts in the field, this is an invaluable survey of the philosophy of statistical mechanics for academic researchers and graduate students interested in the foundations of physics.

This book presents the up-to-date status of quantum theory and the outlook for its development in the 21st century. The covered topics include basic problems of quantum physics, with emphasis on the foundations of quantum theory, quantum computing and control, quantum optics, coherent states and Wigner functions, as well as on methods of quantum physics based on Lie groups and algebras, quantum groups and noncommutative geometry. Contents:The Interacting Fock Space of Haldane's Exclusion Statistics (L Accardi & M Nhani)Complex Hamiltonians Having Real Spectra (C M Bender)From Rsonances to Poincaré Semigroups (A R Bohm et al.)Quantum Field Theory as Dynamical System (H J Borchers)Beta-lattices for Aperiodic Order (J-P Gazeau)Generalized Symmetries and Time (M Heller)Integrable Hierarchies and the WDVV-equations (G F Helminck)Global Gauss Law for Lattice QCD (J Kijowski & G Rudolph)Quantum Entanglement and Symmetries (M Kus)From Noncommutative Space-time to Quantum Relativistic Symmetries with Fundamental Mass Parameter (J Lukierski)Tomographic Map within the Framework of Star-product Quantization (O V Man'ko et al.)Algorithmic Cooling and Scalable Quantum Computers: Ways to Improve the Space-time Requirements of the Algorithm (T Mor & Y Weinstein)Quantum Theory on the Torus with Magnetic Field (H Narnhofer)Nonlocal Reflection by Photonic Barriers (G Nimtz & A Haibel)Lightfront Formalism versus Holography & Chiral Scanning (B Schroer)Broken Symmetries (W Thirring)Guage Theories on Non-communtative Spaces (J Wess) Readership: Researchers, lecturers and graduate students in theoretical, mathematical and quantum physics. Keywords:

This book presents the up-to-date status of quantum theory and the outlook for its development in the 21st century. The covered topics include basic problems of quantum physics, with emphasis on the foundations of quantum theory, quantum computing and control, quantum optics, coherent states and Wigner functions, as well as on methods of quantum physics based on Lie groups and algebras, quantum groups and noncommutative geometry.