Screen LibraryDance of the photons：from Einstein to quantum teleportation
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Einsteins Spuk. |
| Carrier Form: | 305 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374239664 (hardcover) 0374239665 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | O413 |
| CLC: | O413 |
| Call Number: | O413/Z46 |
| Contents: |
Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 lec 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. |