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Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons
Serge Haroche
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Description for Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons
Paperback. The quantum world obeys logic at odds with common sense intuition. This weirdness is directly displayed in recent experiments juggling with isolated atoms and photons. They are reviewed in this book, combining theoretical insight and experimental description, and providing useful illustrations for learning and teaching of quantum mechanics. Series: Oxford Graduate Texts. Num Pages: 616 pages, 228 figures - 156 b+w line drawings and 72 b+w halftones. BIC Classification: PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 171 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1206.
The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schroedinger'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 ... Read more
The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schroedinger'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
616
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Oxford Graduate Texts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199680313
SKU
V9780199680313
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About Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche Professor at College de France (Chaire de Physique Quantique) since 2001 Member of the French Academy of Sciences since 1993 Professor at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (1975-2000) and at Ecole Normale Superieure (1984-2000). Maitre de Conference at Ecole Polytechnique (1975-1984) Professor (part time) at Yale University (1984-1993) Senior Member of Institut ... Read more
Reviews for Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons
`This is a wonderfully well-informed book. The authors tackle a difficult subject with beautiful clarity, and elegance. It should be required reading for anyone who wishes to explore the quantum wonders of Nature.' A. Ekert, University of Cambridge `A gem and a must-read for any student of quantum physics, from advanced undergraduate to expert.' Physics Today, August 2007 ... Read more