Learning on ScreenFrom Einstein’s Intuition to Quantum Bits: A New Quantum Age?
- Synopsis
- A video recording of CNRS scientist Professor Alain Aspect delivering the 2010 Schrödinger Lecture on quibits at Imperial College..
In 1935, with co-authors Podolsky and Rosen, Einstein discovered an amazing quantum situation, where particles in a pair are so strongly correlated that Schrödinger called them "entangled". By analysing that situation, Einstein concluded that the quantum formalism was incomplete. Niels Bohr immediately opposed that conclusion, and the debate lasted until the death of these two giants of physics, in the 1950s. In 1964, John Bell produced his famous inequalities, which allowed experimentalists to settle the debate, and to show that the revolutionary concept of entanglement is indeed a reality.
Based on that concept, a new field of research has emerged, quantum information, where one uses quantum bits, the so-called "qubits". In contrast to classical bits which are either in state 0 or state 1, qubits can be simultaneously in state 0 and state 1, as a Schrödinger cat could be simultaneously dead and alive. Entanglement between qubits enables conceptually new methods for processing and transmitting information. Large scale practical implementation of such concepts might revolutionise our society, as did the laser, the transistor and integrated circuits, some of the most striking fruits of the first quantum revolution, which began with the 20th century. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of production
- 2010
- Subjects
- Physics
- Keywords
- quantum physics
Online availability
- URI
- http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/media/onlinelectures
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed/Download
Credits
- Contributor
- Alain Aspect
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