Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons

by Serge Haroche and Jean-Michel Raimond

Book Overview

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been for long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schr?dinger'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198509146
• ISBN13: 9780198509141
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 10.0"