Exploring the Quantum - Atoms, Cavities, and Photons

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schrödinger'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 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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• Authors: Serge Haroche, Serge ( Haroche, Serge (College de France) Haroche, Serge (College De France) Raimond Haroche, Serge Raimond Haroche, Haroche Serge, Jean-Michel Raimond, Jean-Michel (Universite P. et M. Curie et Institut Universitaire de France) Raimond, Raimond Jean-Michel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2013
• EAN: 9780199680313
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968031-3
• No. of pages: 616
• Series: Oxford Graduate Texts; Oxford Graduate Texts
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Applied optics, Particle & high-energy physics, Atomic & molecular physics, Particle and high-energy physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle