| Preface | |
| The Hidden-Measurement Formalism: Quantum Mechanics as a Consequence of Fluctuations on the Measurement | p. 1 |
| A Model with Varying Fluctuations in the Measurement Context | p. 7 |
| Short-Time Behavior and Zero Effect in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory | p. 11 |
| A Minimal Local Extension of the Quantum Formalism | p. 17 |
| Chaos and Decoherence in a Quantum System with a Regular Classical Counterpart | p. 31 |
| Quantum Computation | p. 39 |
| Superdiffusive Behavior in Weakly Chaotic Systems: A New Avenue to Quantum Macroscopic Manifestations | p. 55 |
| A Proof with 18 Vectors of the Bell-Kochen-Specker Theorem | p. 59 |
| Temporal Bell Inequalities and the Uncertainty Principle | p. 63 |
| Parametric Down-Conversion Experiments in the Wigner Representation | p. 71 |
| Negative Entropy in Quantum Information Theory | p. 77 |
| Stochastic Approach to the Tunnel Effect | p. 85 |
| Classical Physical Entities with a Quantum Description | p. 103 |
| Dynamical Effects Generated by the Current Fluctuations in a Long Solenoid | p. 109 |
| Coherent States and the Measurement Problem | p. 115 |
| Contextualism, Locality, and the No-Go Theorems | p. 125 |
| A State-Specific Proof of the Bell-Kochen-Specker Theorem Using Only 5 Propositions | p. 133 |
| Properties of a Causal Quantum Theory in Phase Space | p. 137 |
| From Quantum to Classical: the Quantum State Diffusion Model | p. 141 |
| Quantum Physics and the Problem of the Ontological Priority Between Continuous Quantity and Discrete Quantity | p. 151 |
| Localized and Delocalized States in Pyramidal Molecules | p. 159 |
| A Bigger Contradiction Between Quantum Theory and Locality for Two Particles without Inequalities | p. 163 |
| Irreversible Quantum Evolution for Unstable Systems in Lax-Phillips Scattering Theory | p. 171 |
| Dichotomic Functions and Bell's Theorems | p. 185 |
| Production and Uses of Hyper-Entangled States | p. 189 |
| From Newton to Schrodinger and Beyond | p. 203 |
| Quenching of Spontaneous Emission via Quantum Interference: Time Evolution | p. 207 |
| Quantum Mechanics on Discrete Space and Time | p. 213 |
| Symplectic Tomography of Schrodinger Cat States of a Trapped Ion | p. 225 |
| Magical Photon or Real Zeropoint? | p. 231 |
| Linear and Nonlinear Optical Response of a Dilute Bose Gas in the Condensation Regime | p. 247 |
| Quantum Measurement and Practice in Nuclear Physics | p. 255 |
| Quantum Predictions without Nonlocal Projections | p. 259 |
| The Emergence of Statistical Laws in Quantum Mechanics | p. 265 |
| Consistent Histories: A Critique | p. 275 |
| Immaterial Interpretation of Quantum Theory in the Context of Quantum Cosmology | p. 285 |
| Atom Interferometry for Quantum Gravity? | p. 291 |
| Quantum Nonlocality and Inseparability | p. 301 |
| Decoherence Limits to Quantum Factoring | p. 311 |
| Quantum Engineering with Trapped Ions | p. 317 |
| Many-Valued Interpretation of the Logic of Quantum Mechanics | p. 325 |
| No Point Particles, Definitely no Waves | p. 329 |
| Interference and Violation of Bell's Inequalities Using Separate Sources | p. 335 |
| Bell's Inequality for a Particle | p. 347 |
| Quantum Gravity Corrections for the Initial State of Gravitons | p. 355 |
| Quantum Privacy Amplification: A Secure Method for Cryptography | p. 361 |
| The Program of Local Hidden Variables | p. 369 |
| Noninvariant Velocity of Light and Locally Equivalent Reference Frames | p. 381 |
| Quantum Interferometry, Measurement and Objectivity: Some Basic Features Revisited | p. 395 |
| Effect of QED Fluctuations on the Dynamics of the Macroscopic Phase | p. 403 |
| What When Gleason's Theorem Fails? | p. 415 |
| Quantum Decoherence Induced by Gravitational Fluctuations in the Measurement Apparatus | p. 421 |
| Schrodinger Cat States in Quantum Optics | p. 425 |
| An Experimental Realization of Bohm's Spin-1/2 Particle EPR Gedanken Experiment | p. 431 |
| What is Achieved by Decoherence? | p. 441 |
| Author Index | p. 453 |
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