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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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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Popular science

• Full title: Quantum Divide
• Author: Christopher Gerry
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9780199666560
• ISBN: 0199666563
• ID: 01203705
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 418 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 222 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. February 2013

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