Johann Summhammer

Aside from solar cells and photovoltaic research, I am also interested in foundational questions in quantum physics and in quantum effects in biology. The following is a collection of published papers and unpublished manuscripts.

2012

Can Quantum Entanglement Between Ion Transition States Effect Action Potential Initiation? G. Bernroider and J. Summhammer. Cognitive Computation 4 (2012) 29-37. DOI: 10.1007/s12559-012-9126-7 Available Online: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1jku43r2w5352360/

A Quantum-mechanical description of ion motion within the confining potentials of voltage gated ion channels J. Summhammer, V. Salari, G. Bernroider. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 11 (2012) 123-135. DOI: 10.1142/S0219635212500094 Available Online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0637

2011

Quantum Cooperation Johann Summhammer, Axiomathes 21 (2011) 347-356, DOI 10.1007/s10516-010-9139-3

2007

Quantum entanglement in the voltage dependent sodium channel can reproduce the salient features of neuronal action potential initiation. Johann Summhammer and Gustav Bernroider, Published in E-Archive: http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1474
Quantum theory as efficient representation of probabilistic information. Johann Summhammer, Published in E-Archive: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701181

2002

Dialogue on Classical and Quantum between Mathematician and Experimenter. J. Summhammer and A. Khrennikov in „Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations” ed. A Khrennikov (Växjö University Press, Växjö, Sweden, 2002) , p. 385-396 [12 pages]. Download: http://arxiv.org/quant-ph/0111130
Conservation of Statistical Information and Quantum Laws. Johann Summhammer in „Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations” ed. A Khrennikov (Växjö University Press, Växjö, Sweden, 2002) , p. 367-384 [18 pages].

2001

Structure of Probabilistic Information and Quantum Laws. Johann Summhammer in „Quantum Probability and White Noise Analysis", Volume XIII, ed. A Khrennikov (World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 2001) p. 350 – 363 [14 pages]. E-archive: http://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/010299
Invariants of Elementary Observation. Johann Summhammer, A Quarterly Learned Journal: Millenium III, 6-7 (2001) 39-72 [34 pages]. Guest edited by Cristian S. Calude and Karl Svozil. E-archive: http://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/0008098.

2000

Interferometric Information Gain Versus Interaction-Free Measurement. Günther Krenn, Johann Summhammer, Karl Svozil, Phys. Rev. A 61, 052102 (2000).

1997

Observation of Geometric and Dynamical Phases by Neutron Interferometry. B. E. Allman, H. Kaiser, S. A. Werner, A. G. Wagh, V. C. Rakhecha, J. Summhammer, Phys. Rev. A 56, 4420 (1997).
Factoring and Fourier Transformation with a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. Johann Summhammer, Phys. Rev. A 56, 4324 (1997).
Experiment on Interaction-Free Measurement in Neutron Interferometry. Meinrad Hafner and Johann Summhammer, Phys. Lett. A 235, 563-568 (1997).
Experimental Separation of Geometric and Dynamical Phases Using Neutron Interferometry. A.G. Wagh, V.C. Rakhecha, J. Summhammer, G. Badurek, H. Weinfurter, B.E. Allman, H. Kaiser, K. Hamacher, D.L. Jacobson, and S.A. Werner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 755 (1997).

1996

Testing energy quantization at the level of 100 kHz by neutron crystal diffraction. J. Summhammer, Phys. Rev. A 54, 3155 (1996).
Interaction-free preparation. G. Krenn, J. Summhammer, and K. Svozil, Phys. Rev. A 53, 1228 (1996).

1995

Multiphoton Exchange Amplitudes Observed by Neutron Interferometry. J. Summhammer, K.A. Hamacher, H. Kaiser, H. Weinfurter, D.L. Jacobson and S.A. Werner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3206 (1995).

1994

Interferometry with Two Pairs of Spin Correlated Photons. M. Pavicic and J. Summhammer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3191 (1994).
Apparent anyonic behavior of the neutron wavefunction in the time domain. G. Badurek, Y.D. Zhang, G. Krenn and J. Summhammer, Phys. Lett. A 194, 26 (1994).
Maximum Predictive Power and the Superposition Principle. J. Summhammer, Int. J. Theor. Physics, 33, 171 (1994).

1993

Coherent Multi-Photon Exchange Between Neutron and Oscillating Magnetic Field. J. Summhammer, Phys. Rev. A47, 556 (1993).

1992

Neutron Interferometer Absorption Experiments in the Quantum Limit. H. Rauch and J. Summhammer, Phys. Rev. A46, 7284 (1992).
Neutron Interferometry with Antiphase Modulation. H.R. Brown, J. Summhammer, R.E. Callaghan and P. Kaloyerou, Physics Letters A 163, 21 (1992).

1991

Fundamental and Applied Neutron Interferometry. J. Summhammer and A. Zeilinger, Physica B 174, 396 (1991).

1990

Wave Aspects of Electron and Ion Emission from Point Sources. J. Summhammer and J. Schmiedmayer, Physica Scripta 42, 124 (1990).

1989

Neutron Interferometric Test of the Nonergodic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. J. Summhammer, Nuovo Cimento B, 103, 265 (1989).
Probabilistic Prediction With Constant Chance of Success. J. Summhammer, Phys. Lett. 136A, 183 (1989).

1988

Inference in Quantum Physics. J. Summhammer, Found. Phys. Lett. 1, 113, (1988).

1987

Stochastic and Deterministic Absorption in Neutron Interferometry. J. Summhammer, H. Rauch and D. Tuppinger, Phys. Rev. A36, 4447 (1987).

1986

Focusing of Pulsed Neutrons by Traveling Magnetic Potentials. J. Summhammer, L. Niel, H. Rauch, Z. Physik B62, 269 (1986).

1983

Time-Dependent Superposition of Spinors. G. Badurek, H. Rauch, J. Summhammer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1015 (1983).
Direct Observation of Fermion Spin Superposition by Neutron Interferometry. J. Summhammer, G. Badurek, H. Rauch, U. Kischko, A. Zeilinger, Phys. Rev. A27, 2523 (1983).

1982

Explicit Experimental Verification of Quantum Spin-State Superposition. J. Summhammer, G. Badurek, H. Rauch, U. Kischko, Phys. Lett. 90A, 110 (1982). Also reprinted in 'Foundations of Quantum Mechanics since the Bell Inequalities', L. E. Ballentine, ed., (AAPT, College Park, MD, 1988), p. 145.