The Quantum Mechanics of Light: Interference, Entanglement – and Ghosts

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Presenter: Roy Glauber

Published: July 2014

Age: 18-22 and upwards

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Tags: light; quantum; interference; entanglement; super-position

Type: Lectures

Source/institution: Lindau-Nobel


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The early days of the quantum theory presented many dilemmas connected with interference phenomena and what we have come to call the entanglement of states. We are much better able to deal with these problems now, both in theory and experiment, but their novelty and occasional surprises live on. We shall discuss a succession of them.