Quantum Measurement

by Farid Ya Khalili, Vladimir B. Braginsky, Kip S. Thorne

Book Overview

This book is an up-to-date introduction to the quantum theory of measurement. Although the main principles of the field were elaborated in the 1930s by Bohr, Schr dinger, Heisenberg, von Neuman, and Mandelstam, it was not until the 1980s that technology became sufficiently advanced to allow its application in real experiments. Quantum measurement is now central to many ultra-high technology developments, such as "squeezed light," single atom traps,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521484138
• ISBN13: 9780521484138
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"