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    Book, "The Quantum Measurement Problem" by Michael Steiner and Ronald Rendell

    From review by Peter Bussey, Contemporary Physics:

    "...Steiner and Rendell present a detailed mathematical argument that the Schrödinger equation on its own cannot normally lead to an outcome that resembles a random measurement event...its conclusion is quite important since some eminent physicists, such as Feynman, seem to have believed otherwise...The most important chapter of the book is devoted to a thorough and extensive survey of all the approaches to the measurement problem...These are all presented, discussed and evaluated in a very extensive collection that is more complete than in many other works on the subject...The historical discussion is very readable and informative in its own right, and of great value to have. It includes quite a lot of material that I had not encountered before…This book is idiosyncratic but full of information, and its treatment of the quantum physics is in my opinion comprehensive, sound and reasonable...It is a book, then, that will be helpful to open-minded experts in the field, on the whole, and for those who seek to embark on further research in this area."

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    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Effects of coupling on polymer chain dynamics probed dielectrically: precursor to entanglement, Macromolecules 20 (5), 1066-1069, https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00171a033, 1987



    • RW Rendell, JJ Aklonis, KL Ngai, GR Fong, Volume recovery near the glass transition temperature in poly (vinyl acetate): predictions of a coupling model, Macromolecules 20 (5), 1070-1083, https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00171a034, 1987



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, GB McKenna, Molecular weight and concentration dependences of the terminal relaxation time and viscosity of entangled polymer solutions, Macromolecules 20 (9), 2250-2256, https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00175a033, 1987



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, S Mashimo, Coupling model interpretation of dielectric relaxation of poly(vinyl acetate) near Tg, The Journal of chemical physics 87 (4), 2359-2362, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.453117, 1987



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, GR Fong, AF Yee, RJ Bankert, Nonlinear viscoelasticity and yield: Application of a coupling model, Polymer Engineering & Science 27 (1), 2-15, https://doi.org/10.1002/pen.760270103, 1987



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, AK Rajagopal, Complex Hamiltonians: Common Features of Mechanisms for High-Tc and Slow Relaxation, Novel Superconductivity, 531-538, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-1937-5_63, 1987



    • AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, KL Ngai, S Teitler, Empirical Requirements on Models of Relaxation, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 484 (1), 321-323, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-1937-5_63, 1986



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, AK Rajagopal, S Teitler, Three Coupled Relations for Relaxations in Complex Systems, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 484 (1), 150-184, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb49569.x, 1986



    • KL Ngai, AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Models of Kohlrausch relaxations, IEEE transactions on electrical insulation, 313-318, https://doi.org/10.1109/TEI.1986.349068, 1986



    • KL NGAI, RW RENDELL, Relaxations in Conducting Polymers, Handbook of Conducting Polymers, 967, https://doi.org/10.1002/actp.1987.010380126, 1986



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, AF Yee, The coupling model: A fundamental mechanism governing time dependent properties of relaxations, structural recovery and nonlinear viscoelasticity, MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) 79, https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-79-311, 1986



    • KL Ngai, AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Mechanisms for Kohlrausch relaxations in charging and polarization phenomena, 1985 5th International Symposium on Electrets (ISE 5), 265-270, https://doi.org/10.1109/ISE.1985.7341491, 1985



    • KL Ngai, AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Comment on ‘‘Theory of relaxation in viscous liquids and glasses’’, The Journal of Chemical Physics 82 (9), 4392-4393, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.448809, 1985



    • DJ Plazek, KL Ngai, RW Rendell, An application of a unified relaxation model to the aging of polystyrene below its glass temperature, Polymer Engineering & Science 24 (14), 1111-1116, https://doi.org/10.1002/pen.760241406, 1984



    • RW Rendell, TK Lee, KL Ngai, New model of physical aging effects in enthalpy recovery, Polymer Engineering & Science 24 (14), 1104-1110, https://doi.org/10.1002/pen.760241405, 1984



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, H Jain, Anomalous isotope-mass effect in lithium borate glasses: comparison with a unified relaxation model, Physical Review B 30 (4), 2133, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.30.2133, 1984



    • AK Rajagopal, S Teitler, KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Boltzmann’s  theorem and the generalized master equation, Physical Review A 29 (2), 969, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.29.969, 1984



    • KL Ngai, AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Paley-Wiener criterion for relaxation functions, Physical Review B 28 (10), 6073, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.28.6073, 1983



    • AK Rajagopal, KL Ngai, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Nonexponential decay in relaxation phenomena, Journal of Statistical Physics 30 (2), 285-292, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012303, 1983



    • KL Ngai, AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, NMR Studies of Hydrogen Diffusion in Palladium and ß-LaNi5 Hydrides, Electronic Structure and Properties of Hydrogen in Metals, 473-478, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7630-9_67, 1983



    • PW Kasteleyn, WTF den Hollander, M Sahimi, LE Scriven, HT Davis, PB Visscher, AK Rajagopal, KL Ngai, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Cyril Domb, SG Whittington, Analytic continuation method for estimating effective parameters for mulficomponent random walks, Journal of Statistical Physics 30 (2), https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023073028303, 1983



    • DR Penn, RW Rendell, Surface photoeffect in small spheres, Physical Review B 26 (6), 3047, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.26.3047, 1982



    • PK Aravind, RW Rendell, H Metiu, A new geometry for field enhancement in surface-enhanced spectroscopy, Chemical Physics Letters 85 (4), 396-403, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(82)83480-5, 1982



    • RW Rendell, SM Girvin, The quantum Hall effect: Role of inversion layer geometry, Surface Science 113 (1-3), 39-40, https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-6028(82)90560-X, 1982



    • S Girvin, RW Rendell, GW Bryant, New field theory formulation of localised states in disordered systems, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 14 (29), L881, https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/14/29/004, 1981



    • DR Penn, RW Rendell, Surface-enhanced photoabsorption and photoyield in small spheres, Physical Review Letters 47 (15), 1067, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1067, 1981



    • RW Rendell, DJ Scalapino, Surface plasmons confined by microstructures on tunnel junctions, Physical Review B 24 (6), 3276, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.24.3276, 1981



    • RW Rendell, SM Girvin, Hall voltage dependence on inversion-layer geometry in the quantum Hall-effect regime, Physical Review B 23 (12), 6610, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.23.6610, 1981



    • RW Rendell, DR Penn, Spin dependent attenuation lengths in ferromagnets, Journal of Applied Physics 52 (3), 1620-1621, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.329657, 1981



    • RW Rendell, DR Penn, Spin dependence of the electron mean free path in Fe, Co, and Ni, Physical Review Letters 45 (25), 2057, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.2057, 1980



    • A Adams, RW Rendell, RW Garnett, PK Hansma, H Metiu, Effect of metal film thickness on surface-atom coupling, Optics Communications 34 (3), 417-420, https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4018(80)90406-X, 1980



    • A Adams, RW Rendell, WP West, HP Broida, PK Hansma, H Metiu, Luminescence and nonradiative energy transfer to surfaces, Physical Review B 21 (12), 5565, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.21.5565, 1980



    • RW Rendell, DJ Scalapino, B Mühlschlegel, Role of local plasmon modes in light emission from small-particle tunnel junctions, Physical Review Letters 41 (25), 1746, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.41.1746, 1978



    About Me

    Ronald Rendell

    Senior Scientist

    Dr. Rendell received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics (1980) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Rendell has performed basic theoretical research in a variety of areas with over 80 publications in archival journals. These include significant contributions to relaxations and transport in complex material systems, transport in electronic materials, plasmonics in nanostructures and metamaterials, quantum information, quantum decoherence and entanglement, and quantum measurement. In his Ph.D. work, Dr. Rendell originated the concept of the localized surface plasmon and identified the first experimental observation of these excitations. He later developed theory and modeling of plasmo-photonic nanostructured arrays and protein-based plasmonic nanostructures. Dr. Rendell developed theory and modeling on relaxation in complex material systems (such as polymers, glasses, electronic materials, dielectrics, ionic conductors) which exhibit time-dependent phenomena related to many-body correlations in the materials. He first identified diffusion in the phase space of relaxing chaotic Hamiltonians as the origin of such time-dependences as successfully described by Ngai’s coupling model of relaxation. Dr. Rendell developed theory in the area of quantum information and entanglement and worked on research projects involving qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, integrated atom optics, and atomic slow light devices. His current research is in the area of foundations of quantum mechanics, specifically on the quantum measurement problem. During 2005-2006, Dr. Rendell was a member of Prof. Yakir Aharonov's Center for Quantum Studies where he conducted fundamental quantum mechanics research. In 2006 Dr. Rendell was a founding member of Inspire Institute, and is currently on the board of directors. In 2018, Dr. Rendell coauthored with Dr. Michael Steiner the book “The Quantum Measurement Problem”, published by Inspire Institute, Inc.

    To the extent there is entanglement, there is no measurement.

    Michael Steiner and Ronald Rendell