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Mark P. Silverman
QUANTUM
SUPERPOSITION
Counterintuitive Consequences
of Coherence, Entanglement,
and Interference
With 97 Figures and 13 Tables
123
Mark P. Silverman
Trinity College
Department of Physics
Hartford, CT 06106
USA
Series Editors:
Avshalom C. Elitzur
Bar-Ilan University,
Unit of Interdisciplinary Studies,
52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel
email: avshalom.elitzur@weizmann.ac.il
Rüdiger Vaas
University of Gießen,
Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science
35394 Gießen, Germany
email: Ruediger.Vaas@t-online.de
Mark P. Silverman
Department of Physics, Trinity College,
Hartford, CT 06106, USA
email: mark.silverman@trincoll.edu
H. Dieter Zeh
University of Heidelberg,
Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Philosophenweg 19,
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
email: zeh@uni-heidelberg.de
Jack Tuszynski
University of Alberta,
Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB,
T6G 2J1, Canada
email: jtus@phys.ualberta.ca
Cover figure:
Image courtesy of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute,
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ISBN 978-3-540-71883-3
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-71884-0
Frontiers Collection ISSN 1612-3018
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