Quantum Physics: A First Encounter - Interference, Entanglement, and Reality

Zusatztext Valerio Scarani has done the teachers and lecturers of the world a huge favour in giving their students the chance to appreciate the wonders of quantum mechanics and to think deeply about the meaning of each postulate, each explanation and each experiment. His book is thought-provoking and skilfully planned and one I would heartily recommend. Informationen zum Autor Valerio Scarani received his degree in 1996 in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne (Switzerland), with a work in mathematical physics. He got his Ph.D. from the same institution four years later with an experimental research project in nuclear magnetic resonance. He moved to the group of Nicolas Gisin at the University of Geneva, where he started working in theoretical quantum information science. Since 2007 he has been at the National University of Singapore, where he is currently principal investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies and a professor in the Department of Physics. Klappentext The essential features of quantum physics, largely debated since its discovery, are presented through the description (without mathematics) of recent experiments. This book clarifies the historical issues (delocalisation, interferences) and reaches out to modern topics (quantum cryptography, non-locality and teleportation). Zusammenfassung The essential features of quantum physics, largely debated since its discovery, are presented through the description (without mathematics) of recent experiments. This book clarifies the historical issues (delocalisation, interferences) and reaches out to modern topics (quantum cryptography, non-locality and teleportation). Inhaltsverzeichnis 0: Preface 1.Quantum Interferences 1: The Heart of the Matter 2: Taking a Closer Look 3: Dimensions and Borderlines 4: Authority Ruled Down 5: A Nice Idea 2. Quantum Correlations 6: Indistinguisability at a Distance 7: On the Origin of Correlations 8: Paris, Innsbruck, Geneva 9: Roads for an Explanantion Epilogue ...

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• Authors: Valerio Scarani, Valerio (Principal Investigator At Centre Scarani, Valerio (Principal investigator at Centre for Quantum Technologies and professor Scarani, Scarani Valerio
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780198766414
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876641-4
• No. of pages: 144
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