An edition of Dance of the photons (2010)

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An edition of Dance of the photons (2010)

Dance of the photons

from Einstein to quantum teleportation

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

Anton Zeilinger draws on his own experiments, conducted in various locations around the world, to demonstrate the truth behind the theory that two elementary particles far removed from one another can influence each other's properties.

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English
Pages
305

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Dance of the photons: from Einstein to quantum teleportation
2010, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Table of Contents

Underneath the Danube
Space travel
The stuff called light. Light is a wave ; Light is particles
Sheepdogs and Einstein's particles of light
Einstein and his Nobel Prize
A conflict
How we became certain of uncertainty
Quantum uncertainty : just our ignorance , or is it the way things are? The quantum excuse
The quantum verdict against teleportation
Quantum entanglement comes to the rescue. Entangled quantum dice ; The original teleportation protocol
Alice and Bob in the quantum lab. Alice and Bob's experiment : the first steps
The polarization of light : a lecture by Professor Quantinger. The polarization of individual quanta of light
Alice and Bob discover twins. ...And invent hidden properties
John's introduction of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. The reality criterion ; Reality in Alice and Bob's experiment ; The locality assumption
John's story on local hidden variables
Alice and Bob's experiment gives confusing results
John Bell's story
Alice and Bob find out that things aren't as they think they are
Faster than light and back into the past?
Alice, Bob, and the speed of light limit
Loopholes
In the Tyrolean Mountains
The quantum lottery
Quantum lottery with two photons. Quantum lottery with entangled photons
Quantum money : the end to all forgery. From classical bits to quantum bits
A quantum truck can transport more than it can carry
Atomic sources of entanglement of early experiments
The super-source and closing the communication loophole
Quantum teleportation at the River Danube
The multiphoton surprise and, along the road, quantum teleportation
Teleporting entanglement. A ghostly idea ; Connecting quantum computer ; Reality vs. information
Further experiments
Quantum information technology
The future of quantum teleportation. Teleportation as a means of travel?
Signals out of the sky above Tenerife
Recent developments and some open questions
What does it all mean?

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530.12
Library of Congress
QC174.12 .Z4513 2010, QC174.12.Z4513 2010

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Pagination
305 p. :
Number of pages
305

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24814035M
ISBN 10
0374239665
ISBN 13
9780374239664
LCCN
2009031890
OCLC/WorldCat
429024672

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OL15907387W

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