ISBN: 3-540-66899-3
TITLE: Decoherence: Theoretical, Experimental, and Conceptual Problems
AUTHOR: Blanchard, P.; Giulini, D.; Joos, E.; Kiefer, C.; Stamatescu, I.-O. (Eds.)
TOC:

I. General Introduction
Elements of Environmental Decoherence
E. Joos .1
The Meaning of Decoherence
H.D. Zeh 19
II. Theoretical Aspects
Continuous Fuzzy Measurement of Energy: Realization and Application
J. Audretsch 43
Slow Decoherence of Superpositions of Macroscopically Distinct States
D. Braun, P.A. Braun, and F. Haake 55
Grey Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates as Mesoscopic Particles
T. Busch and J.R. Anglin 67
Decoherence Through Coupling to the Radiation Field
D. Drr and H. Spohn 77
States, Symmetries and Superselection
D. Giulini 87
Decoherence in Situations Involving the Gravitational Field
C. Kiefer 101
Moving Quantum Agents in a Finite Environment
I. Kim and G. Mahler 113
Mathematical Aspects of Decoherence
J. Kupsch 125
Decoherence and Continuous Measurements:
Phenomenology and Models
M.B. Mensky 137
The Problem of Decoherence and the EPR Paradox
P. Mittelstaedt 149
Asymptotically Disjoint Quantum States
H. Primas 161
Dynamical Localization and Decoherence
F. Saif, K. Riedel, W.P. Schleich, and B. Mirbach 179
III. Experiments
Quantum Cryptography and Long Distance Bell Experiments:
How to Control Decoherence
N. Gisin, J. Brendel, J.-D. Gautier, B. Gisin, B. Huttner, G. Ribordy, W. Tittel, and H. Zbinden 191
Exploration of the Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics by Charged Particle Interferometry
F. Hasselbach, H. Kiesel, and P. Sonnentag 201
Single Ions in Paul Traps
H.C. Ngerl, Ch. Roos, H. Rohde, D. Leibfried, J. Eschner, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and R. Blatt 213
IV. Alternative Approaches
Time-Convolutionless Stochastic Unraveling of Non-Markovian Quantum Master Equations
H.-P. Breuer, B. Kappler, and F. Petruccione 233
Emergence of Classicality: From Collapse Phenomenologies to Hybrid Dynamics
L. Disi 243
EEQT: Formalism and Applications
R. Olkiewicz 251
An Application of EEQT: Tunneling Times
A. Ruschhaupt 259
Non-Markovian Quantum State Diffusion and Open System Dynamics
W.T. Strunz, L. Disi, and N. Gisin 271
V. Conceptual and Epistemological Issues
Quantum Theory Without Waves: A Way of Eliminating Quantum Mechanical Paradoxes?
M. Cini 281
Decoherence as an Irreversible Process
R. Omns 291
Many Minds and Single Mind Interpretations of Quantum Theory
A. Whitaker 299
Decoherence and Einselection
W.H. Zurek 309
List of Participants 343
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