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One hundred years of quantum mechanics

Marlan O. Scully, William George Unruh

Quantum mechanics has gone from a theory in test to becoming the foundation of new technologies.

ScienceDec 4, 20253 citations

Bohmian Quantum Mechanics or what comes before the Standard Model

G. Moultaka

We give a short account of an old and somewhat unfashionable approach to quantum mechanics, arguing though for its potential to provide a new kind of Higgsless physics beyond the Standard Model.

Jul 12, 20100 citations

The curious case of quantum Cheshire cats

Iulia Georgescu

For the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, Physics World is shining a spotlight on quantum effects so “weird” they make superposition and entanglement seem almost ordinary. In the second of this series, Iulia Georgescu falls down the rabbit-hole to explore the curiosity that is a quantum Cheshire cat.

Physics WorldJun 1, 20250 citations

Quantum technologies—technologies of the 21st century

S. Ya. Kilin

Optics and SpectroscopyFeb 1, 20100 citations

The Bell connection

Iulia Georgescu

Bell’s theorem is one of the most significant results in quantum mechanics. So why, wonders Iulia Georgescu, did John Bell publish it in a little-known, short-lived journal called Physics?

Physics WorldSep 1, 20260 citations

A tale of quantum jumps

H. J. Carmichael

In this year of light, our attention is quickly drawn to the many inroads into our day-to-day lives made, since the early 1960s, by the laser and the various technologies it has spawned: digital technologies (e.g. the optical fibre network), biomedical imaging and applications (e.g. in ophthalmology and dermatology), and applications in precision and ‘not-so-precision’ engineering – how did engineers ensure that the ends of the Chunnel would meet up in the middle? Likely only a very few of us are turned to a reflection on quantum mechanics by the year of light; but the rise of light, from its rather side-lined position in the late nineteenth century, as a well-understood Maxwell wave, to its position today as a diverse enabling technology, is very much a story of quantum mechanics, particularly in its early days, the days of the Old Quantum Theory where my tale of quantum jumps begins.In this year of light, our attention is quickly drawn to the many inroads into our day-to-day lives made, since the early 1960s, by the laser and the various technologies it has spawned: digital technologies (e.g. the optical fibre network), biomedical imaging and applications (e.g. in ophthalmology and dermatology), and applications in precision and ‘not-so-precision’ engineering – how did engineers ensure that the ends of the Chunnel would meet up in the middle? Likely only a very few of us are turned to a reflection on quantum mechanics by the year of light; but the rise of light, from its rather side-lined position in the late nineteenth century, as a well-understood Maxwell wave, to its position today as a diverse enabling technology, is very much a story of quantum mechanics, particularly in its early days, the days of the Old Quantum Theory where my tale of quantum jumps begins.

New Zealand Science ReviewNov 17, 20230 citations

Quantum technologies: an old new story

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