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  title info:
    title: Quantum Superposition
    sub title: Counterintuitive Consequences of Coherence, Entanglement, and Interference
  name:
    name part: Silverman, Mark P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 379 p. online resource.
  abstract: Coherence, entanglement, and interference arise from quantum superposition, the most distinctive and puzzling feature of quantum physics. Silverman, whose extensive experimental and theoretical work has helped elucidate these processes, presents a clear and engaging discussion of the role of quantum superposition in diverse quantum phenomena such as the wavelike nature of particle propagation, indistinguishability of identical particles, nonlocal interactions of correlated particles, topological effects of magnetic fields, and chiral asymmetry in nature. He also examines how macroscopic quantum coherence may be able to extricate physics from its most challenging quandary, the collapse of a massive degenerate star to a singularity in space in which the laws of physics break down. Explained by a physicist with a concern for clarity and experimental achievability, the extraordinary nature of quantum superposition will fascinate the reader not only for its apparent strangeness, but also for its comprehensibility.
  table of contents: The Enigma of Quantum Interference -- Correlations and Entanglements I: Fluctuations of Light and Particles -- Correlations and Entanglements II: Interferometry of Correlated Particles -- Quantum Boosts and Quantum Beats -- Sympathetic Vibrations: The Atom in Resonant Fields -- Symmetries and Insights: The Circulating Electron in Electromagnetic Fields -- Chiral Asymmetry: The Quantum Physics of Handedness -- Condensates in the Cosmos: Quantum Stabilization of Degenerate Stars.
  note: by Mark P. Silverman.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum computers
  subject:
    topic: Spintronics
  subject:
    topic: Electrical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Microwaves
  subject:
    topic: Optical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Electrical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783540718840
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71884-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204144546.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-71884-0