Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons
Serge Haroche and Jean-Michel Raimond
Abstract
The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been illustrated for some time 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 weird features of the quantum. State superpositions, entanglement and complementarity define a novel quantum logic that 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, i ... More
Keywords: counter-intuitive aspects, quantum physics, state superpositions, entanglement, complementarity, quantum logic, information processing, decoherence, quantum-classical boundary, single particles
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198509141 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198509141.001.0001 |
