Public Lectures
The University of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science holds an annual public lecture on the topic of quantum information sciences and technologies.
Alain Aspect is an internationally acclaimed physicist at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He is a pioneer in the foundations of quantum physics, including celebrated demonstrations of quantum non-locality (sometimes referred to as Einstein's spooky action at a distance). He received the 2010 Wolf Prize in Physics, which is one of the world's top science awards. In addition to his beautiful, convincing experiments, Dr. Aspect is famous for the clarity and general appeal of his presentations.
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"From Einstein's LichtQuanten to Wheeler's delayed choice: wave particle duality for a single photon" Date: 26 April 2012 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. For comments regarding this website, please contact
Last updated May 23, 2010 |