Exploring the Quantum

Atoms, Cavities, and Photons

Serge Haroche, Jean-Michel Raimond - Collection Oxford Graduate Texts

604 pages, parution le 10/08/2006

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An introduction to quantum optics for quantum information scientists.
A comprehensive description of the physics of open quantum systems.
Direct demonstrations of quantum concepts, providing illustrations for teaching quantum physics and giving ideas for problem sets at an advanced level.
Useful to readers who are new to the conceptual aspects of the quantum world.
A unified presentation of different subfields of quantum optics: cavity QED, ion traps, and cold atoms in optical lattices.

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been for 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 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 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.

Readership: Students and professionals in physics, quantum information physics and quantum mechanics.

L'auteur - Serge Haroche

Serge Haroche est professeur honoraire au Collège de France. Membre de l'Académie des sciences et prix Nobel de physique en 2012 pour la mise en oeuvre des méthodes permettant de manipuler et de mesurer des objets quantiques individuels, il a mené ses recherches avec son équipe au sein du laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'École normale supérieure.

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L'auteur - Jean-Michel Raimond

Jean-Michel Raimond, Université P. et M. Curie et Institut Universitaire de France

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Sommaire

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 cats
Atoms in a box
Entangling matter waves
Appendix: Representation of quantum states in phase space

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Serge Haroche, Jean-Michel Raimond
Collection	Oxford Graduate Texts
Parution	10/08/2006
Nb. de pages	604
Format	17,5 x 25,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1378g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198509141
ISBN13	978-0-19-850914-1