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Photons, atoms, waves new tests of quantum phenomena
A lecture by Professor Herbert Walther, University of Munich, director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany: Atomic physicists have dreamed of being able to isolate and observe the quantum behaviour of a single atom and its interaction with radiation in all its basic details. This dream in recent years has become reality with the one-atom maser or micromaser, a pure quantum device operating with only a few photons and less than one atom on the average in the cavity. It is thus an ideal device to study quantum phenomena in radiation-atom interaction. Experiments with single atoms in traps which give new insight into the radiation-atom interaction are also discussed.
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- "A lecture by Professor Herbert Walther, University of Munich, director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany: Atomic physicists have dreamed of being able to isolate and observe the quantum behaviour of a single atom and its interaction with radiation in all its basic details. This dream in recent years has become reality with the one-atom maser or micromaser, a pure quantum device operating with only a few photons and less than one atom on the average in the cavity. It is thus an ideal device to study quantum phenomena in radiation-atom interaction. Experiments with single atoms in traps which give new insight into the radiation-atom interaction are also discussed."@en
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