Exploring the Quantum : Atoms, Cavities, and Photons PDF
by Serge Haroche, Jean-Michel Raimond
Part of the Oxford Graduate Texts series
Description
The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schrodinger's cat.
These experiments have now become real, with single particles - electrons, atoms, or photons - directly unveiling the strange features of the quantum.
State superpositions, entanglement and complementarity define a novel quantum logic which can be harnessed for information processing, raising great hopes forapplications.
This book describes a class of such thought experiments made real.
Juggling with atoms and photons confined in cavities, ions or cold atoms in traps, is here an incentive to shed a new light on the basic concepts of quantum physics.
Measurement processes and decoherence at the quantum-classicalboundary are highlighted.
This volume, which combines theory and experiments, will be of interest to students in quantum physics, teachers seeking illustrations for their lectures and new problem sets, researchers in quantum optics and quantum information.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:11/08/2006
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:11/08/2006
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- ISBN:9780191523243
