Quantum Physics

A First Encounter

Valerio Scarani

144 pages, parution le 15/01/2006

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Presentation of Quantum Physics through recent experiments, without mathematics.
Written for a broad scientific and general audience.
Unique, up-to-date account of Quantum Physics, well-written, in a lively style.
Includes modern topics like cryptography, entanglement, teleportation.

Quantum physics is often perceived as a weird and abstract theory, which physicists must use in order to make correct predictions. But many recent experiments have shown that the weirdness of the theory simply mirrors the weirdness of phenomena: it is Nature itself, and not only our description of it, that behaves in an astonishing way. This book selects those, among these typical quantum phenomena, whose rigorous description requires neither the formalism, nor an important background in physics. The first part of the book deals with the phenomenon of single-particle interference, covering the historical questions of wave-particle duality, objective randomness and the boundary between the quantum and the classical world, but also the recent idea of quantum cryptography. The second part introduces the modern theme of entanglement, by presenting two-particle interference phenomena and discussing Bell's inequalities. A concise review of the main interpretations of quantum physics is provided.

Readership: A broad scientific and general audience. Also university and high school teachers involved in explaining quantum physics at a general level.

L'auteur - Valerio Scarani

Né à Milan en 1972, Valerio Scarani est docteur en physique de l'École polytechnique de Lausanne. Il travaille actuellement comme théoricien dans le Groupe de physique appliquée de l'université de Genève, crédité d'importantes expériences en optique et cryptographie quantiques.

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Sommaire

Quantum Interferences
- The Heart of the Matter
- Taking a Closer Look
- Dimensions and Borderlines
- Authority Ruled Down
- A Nice Idea
Quantum Correlations
- Indistinguisability at a Distance
- On the Origin of Correlations
- Paris, Innsbruck, Geneva
- Roads for an Explanantion
- Epilogue

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Valerio Scarani
Parution	15/01/2006
Nb. de pages	144
Format	13,5 x 20,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	255g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198570479
ISBN13	978-0-19-857047-9