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Exploring the quantum: atoms, cavities, and photons

By Serge Haroche , Jean-Michel Raimond

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
0198509146, 9780198509141, 9781429492447
Open Library ID
OL7400168M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10281466 bytes)
Series
Oxford Graduate Texts
Edition
1st ed
Pages
616\616
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been for 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 weird features of the quantum. State superpositions, entanglement and complementarity define a novel quantum logic which can be harnessed for information processing, raising great hopes for applications. 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-classical boundary 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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