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The Quantum Divide - Why Schroedinger's Cat is Either Dead or Alive (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,861
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The Quantum Divide - Why Schroedinger's Cat is Either Dead or Alive (Hardcover): Christopher C. Gerry, Kimberley M. Bruno

The Quantum Divide - Why Schroedinger's Cat is Either Dead or Alive (Hardcover)

Christopher C. Gerry, Kimberley M. Bruno

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Using a selection of key experiments performed over the past 30 years or so, we present a discussion of the strikingly counter-intuitive phenomena of the quantum world that defy explanation in terms of everyday "common sense" reasoning, and we provide the corresponding quantum mechanical explanations with a very elementary use of associated formalism. Most, but certainly not all, of the experiments we describe are optical experiments involving a very small number of photons (particles of light). We begin with experiments on the wave-particle duality of electrons, proceed to experiments on the particle nature of light and single photon interference, delayed choice experiments and interaction-free detection, then go on to experiments involving the interference of two photons, quantum entanglement and Bell's Theorem, quantum teleportation, large-scale quantum effects and the divide between the classical and quantum worlds, addressing the question as to whether or not there is such a divide.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2013
First published: March 2013
Authors: Christopher C. Gerry • Kimberley M. Bruno
Dimensions: 218 x 147 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-966656-0
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Optics (light)
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Atomic & molecular physics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General
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LSN: 0-19-966656-3
Barcode: 9780199666560

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