Exploring the Quantum

Atoms, Cavities, and Photons

Serge Haroche, Jean-Michel Raimond (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

616 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-968031-3 (ISBN)

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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.

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated 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 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 on the basic concepts of quantum physics. Measurement processes and decoherence at the quantum-classical boundary are highlighted. This volume, which combines theory and experiments, will be of interest to students in quantum physics, teachers seeking illustrations for their lectures and new problem sets, researchers in quantum optics and quantum information.

Serge Haroche Professor at Collège de France (Chaire de Physique Quantique) since 2001 Member of the French Academy of Sciences since 1993 Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1975-2000) and at Ecole Normale Supérieure (1984-2000). Maître de Conférence at Ecole Polytechnique (1975-1984) Professor (part time) at Yale University (1984-1993) Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France (1991-2000) Fellow of the Americal Physical Society (1990) Prix Ricard of French Physical Society (1983) Michelson Medal of Franklin Insitute (1993) Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society (2002) Jean-Michel Raimond Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie since 1988 Junior member of Institut Universitaire de France, 1994-1999 Senior member of Institut Universitaire de France, Quantum Optics chair, 2001- Ampère Prize of the French Academy of Sciences with M. Brune, 1998 Chargé de recherches CNRS 1983-1988 Attaché de recherches CNRS 1979-1983

1. Unveiling the quantum ; 2. Strangeness and power of the quantum ; 3. Of spins and springs ; 4. The environment is watching ; 5. Photons in a box ; 6. Seeing light in subtle ways ; 7. Taming Schrodinger's cats ; 8. Atoms in a box ; 9. Entangling matter waves ; 10. Conclusion ; Appendix: Quantum states in phase space

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.4.2013
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Graduate Texts
Zusatzinfo	228 figures - 156 b+w line drawings and 72 b+w halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1206 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-19-968031-0 / 0199680310
ISBN-13	978-0-19-968031-3 / 9780199680313
Zustand	Neuware