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By Serge Haroche,Jean-Michel Raimond

ISBN-10: 0198509146

ISBN-13: 9780198509141

The counter-intuitive facets of quantum physics were lengthy illustrated via concept experiments, from Einstein's photon field to Schrödinger's cat. those experiments have now develop into actual, with unmarried debris - electrons, atoms, or photons - at once unveiling the unusual gains of the quantum. country superpositions, entanglement and complementarity outline a singular quantum common sense which might be harnessed for info processing, elevating nice hopes for
applications. This e-book describes a category of such suggestion experiments made genuine. Juggling with atoms and photons restrained in cavities, ions or chilly atoms in traps, is the following an incentive to shed a brand new gentle at the uncomplicated ideas of quantum physics. size procedures and decoherence on the quantum-classical
boundary are highlighted. This quantity, which mixes thought and experiments, can be of curiosity to scholars in quantum physics, academics looking illustrations for his or her lectures and new challenge units, researchers in quantum optics and quantum information.

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