VERY GOOD: This book is in very good condition with only slight signs of use in the cover corners. Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper.
Product Details
From the back cover: "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 lecture and new problem sets, researchers in quantum optics and quantum information."
CONTENTS
Unveiling the quantum
Strangeness and power of the quantum
Of spins and springs
The environment is watching
Photons in a box
Seeing light in subtle ways
Taming Schrödinger's cat
Atoms in a box
Entangling matter waves
Conclusion
The book ends with an appendix, bibliography, and index.
