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The Second Quantum Revolution

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    Chapter 1 Mighty Power: How a Theory of the Microcosm Changed Our World
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    Chapter 2 There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom: A New Generation of Quantum Technologies
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    Chapter 3 Technology on the Smallest Scales: The Possibilities of Nanotechnology
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    Chapter 4 Incredibly Fast: From the Digital to the Quantum Computer
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    Chapter 5 Contradictory Atoms: Philosophical Problems with the Smallest Building Blocks of Nature
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    Chapter 6 Natura facit saltus: On Quantum Jumps and Particles Being Created Out of Nothing
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    Chapter 7 Tertium Datur: Wave and Particle at the Same Time
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    Chapter 8 As Well as and Neither/Nor: Superposition—How Things Can Be Here and There at the Same Time
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    Chapter 9 Loss of Identity: The New Reality Concept of Quantum Physics and Its Consequences
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    Chapter 10 Negative Energies and the Electron Spin: Combining the Theory of Relativity to Produce a New Quantum Theory
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    Chapter 11 Quantum Field Theories: All Matter Dissolves
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    Chapter 12 Infinity Minus Infinity Gives Something Finite: How Physicists Learnt to Deal with Infinitely Large Values in the Infinitely Small
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    Chapter 13 More and More Particles: From the Particle Zoo to the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics
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    Chapter 14 Einstein Does Not Fit: The Fundamental Problem in Physics Today
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    Chapter 15 The Path Towards Substancelessness: Breaking with 2,600 Years of Philosophical Thought
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    Chapter 16 A New Understanding of Truth: How Quantum Physics Made Absolute Reality Disappear, and with It Absolute Truth
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    Chapter 17 The Eternal Interplay: Surprising Overlaps Between Quantum Physics and Buddhism
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    Chapter 18 Symmetries: Beauty in the House of Physics
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    Chapter 19 Quantum Consciousness and the Tao of Physics: On Quantum Holism, Quantum Healing, and Other Quantum Nonsense
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    Chapter 20 Quantum Physics and Faith: Explaining the Inexplicable
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    Chapter 21 Cat Destinies: The Quantum Physical Measurement Problem
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    Chapter 22 Wigner’s Friend: Quantum Physics and Consciousness
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    Chapter 23 EPR and Hidden Variables: The Debate About Spooky Action at a Distance
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    Chapter 24 The Experimental Resolution of the Bohr–Einstein Debate: How Entangled Particles Made Their Way from Theory into Practice
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    Chapter 25 The Age of Entanglement: From Spooks to a New Quantum Revolution
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    Chapter 26 Schrodinger’s Cat Is Alive: The Path Back to Classical Physics
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    Chapter 27 Quantum Revolution 2.0: When Nanobots and Quantum Computers Become Part of Our Everyday Lives
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Title
The Second Quantum Revolution
Published by
Springer International Publishing, October 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-98824-5
ISBNs
978-3-31-998823-8, 978-3-31-998824-5
Authors

Jaeger, Lars

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Country Count As %
Unknown 70 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Master 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Professor 5 7%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 24 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 15 21%
Engineering 7 10%
Computer Science 7 10%
Philosophy 3 4%
Materials Science 3 4%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 25 36%