Quantum physics : a first encounter : interference, entanglement, and reality / Valerio Scarani ; translated by Rachael Thew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scarani, Valerio, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Initiation a la physique quantique. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

xvii, 125 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

This text presents the essential features of quantum physics through the description, without mathematics, of recent experiments. It clarifies historical issues, including delocalisation and interferences as well as modern topics, such as cryptography, non-locality and teleportation.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Prologue

Part 1 Quantum Interference

1 At the heart of the problem

1.1 Fribourg, May 1997

1.2 First observations

1.3 Interferometry

1.4 End of the first class

2 Let's step back

2.1 Questions and properties

2.2 Waves and corpuscles

2.3 Continuation of the programme

3 Dimensions and boundaries

3.1 On real experiments

3.2 Neutron interferometry

3.3 Interference with large molecules

4 Authority contradicted

4.1 The Heisenberg mechanism

4.2 The Heisenberg mechanism in the laboratory

4.3 Complementarity and uncertainty

5 A nice idea

5.1 Bangalore, December 1984

5.2 Cryptography

5.3 Quantum key distribution

5.4 The fruits of an idea

Part 2 Quantum Correlations

6 Indistinguishability at a distance

6.1 Saint-Michel, second lecture

6.2 Two-particle (in)distinguishability

6.3 First exploration of the consequences

6.4 Continuation of the programme

7 On the origin of correlations

7.1 The Bell theorem

7.2 Brief history of quantum correlations

7.3 Return to the phenomena

8 Orsay, Innsbruck, Geneva

8.1 The Aspect experiments (1981-82)

8.2 Two other experiments, in 1998

8.3 A curious argument

8.4 'Experimental metaphysics'

9 Attempts at explanation

9.1 To the source of the surprise

9.2 The 'orthodox' approach

9.3 Other foundations

9.4 The mechanistic interpretation of pilot waves

9.5 Further notes for a balance

10 In my end is my beginning

10.1 Variations

10.2 Quantum teleportation

10.3 Epilogue

Endnotes

Index.

Notes:

Translated from the French

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-383-03002-2

1-4294-8872-7

1-280-96512-6

0-19-160697-9

0-19-152468-9

OCLC:

437108713