Quantum Information Seminar Series: Alain Aspect

  • Date: 04/26/2012
  • Time: 19:00
Lecturer(s):
Alain Aspect
Location: 

University of Calgary

Topic: 

From Einstein's LichtQuanten to Wheeler's delayed choice: wave particle duality for a single photon

Description: 

Abstract

 

Since the early days of quantum mechanics, and still in Feynman's lectures on physics, interference between spatially separated trajectories of a single particle has not ceased to fascinate physicists. I will present a realization in optics of that GedankenExperiment, realized with a true single photon source. It has even allowed us to implement Wheeler's delayed choice experiment, emphasizing the weirdness of wave particle duality for a single particle.

 

Other Information: 

Location: ICT 102

 

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