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The Bohr-Einstein Photon Box Debate

Dennis Dieks

Springer eBooksJan 1, 19994 citations

Einstein’s Slit with a Single Atom

Charles Day

Niels Bohr's resolution of a seemingly paradoxical thought experiment devised by Albert Einstein.

PhysicsDec 2, 20250 citations

Examples of quantum mechanics

Giuseppe Mussardo

Springer eBooksJan 1, 20250 citations

EPR before EPR: a 1930 Einstein–Bohr thought experiment revisited

Hrvoje Nikolić

In 1930, Einstein argued against the consistency of the time–energy uncertainty relation by discussing a thought experiment involving a measurement of the mass of the box which emitted a photon. Bohr seemingly prevailed over Einstein by arguing that Einstein's own general theory of relativity saves the consistency of quantum mechanics. We revisit this thought experiment from a modern point of view at a level suitable for an undergraduate readership and find that neither Einstein nor Bohr was correct. Instead, this thought experiment should be thought of as an early example of a system demonstrating nonlocal 'EPR' quantum correlations, five years before the famous Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paper.In 1930, Einstein argued against the consistency of the time–energy uncertainty relation by discussing a thought experiment involving a measurement of the mass of the box which emitted a photon. Bohr seemingly prevailed over Einstein by arguing that Einstein's own general theory of relativity saves the consistency of quantum mechanics. We revisit this thought experiment from a modern point of view at a level suitable for an undergraduate readership and find that neither Einstein nor Bohr was correct. Instead, this thought experiment should be thought of as an early example of a system demonstrating nonlocal 'EPR' quantum correlations, five years before the famous Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paper.

arXiv:1203.1139European Journal of PhysicsJun 15, 201213 citations

Einstein’s boxes

Travis Norsen

At the 1927 Solvay conference, Albert Einstein presented a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the incompleteness of the quantum mechanical description of reality. In the following years, the experiment was modified by Einstein, de Broglie, and several other commentators into a simple scenario involving the splitting in half of the wave function of a single particle in a box. This paper collects together several formulations of this thought experiment from the literature, analyzes and assesses it from the point of view of the Einstein–Bohr debates, the EPR dilemma, and Bell’s theorem, and argues for “Einstein’s Boxes” taking its rightful place alongside similar but historically better known quantum mechanical thought experiments such as EPR and Schrödinger’s Cat.At the 1927 Solvay conference, Albert Einstein presented a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the incompleteness of the quantum mechanical description of reality. In the following years, the experiment was modified by Einstein, de Broglie, and several other commentators into a simple scenario involving the splitting in half of the wave function of a single particle in a box. This paper collects together several formulations of this thought experiment from the literature, analyzes and assesses it from the point of view of the Einstein–Bohr debates, the EPR dilemma, and Bell’s theorem, and argues for “Einstein’s Boxes” taking its rightful place alongside similar but historically better known quantum mechanical thought experiments such as EPR and Schrödinger’s Cat.

arXiv:quant-ph/0404016American Journal of PhysicsJan 13, 200572 citations

Erwin Schrödinger’s Position in the Einstein-Bohr Debate

Ulrich Röseberg

Springer eBooksJan 1, 19921 citation

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