Remarks on Some Basic Issues in Quantum Mechanics
Abstract
Two-way interferometers with which-way detectors are not only of importance in physical research, they are also a useful teaching device. A number of basic issues can be illustrated and discussed, even at the level of undergraduate teaching. Among these issues are: the physical meaning of a state vector; entangled systems; Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations; statistical operators and the as-if realities associated with them; quantum erasure; Schrödinger's cat; and, finally, wave-particle duality.
- Publication:
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Zeitschrift Naturforschung Teil A
- Pub Date:
- January 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1515/zna-1999-0104
- Bibcode:
- 1999ZNatA..54...11E