Quantum physics.... any good material to read? (page 2)

Well, I remember reading Mr. Tompkins in wonderland when i was a kid. Its basically about a guy who go to a physics lecture which he dont understand, and then during the night he dream he is in a world where relativistic or QM effects happen at ordinary human time/length scales.

A lot of really fancy stuff is going on in quantum optics. During the past decade, many of the really crazy things quantum mechanics predict has been observed directly, that is definately the route i would go if i were to introduce a person to how strange the world really is at a quantum level.

Also, macroscopic quantum effects like superconductivity (and its less usefull cousin, superfluidity) are interesting and quite easy to get a basic grasp at, though again i cant point you to specific books. Wikipedia provide good writeups on the subjects in a not-to-technical but still accurate manner. With optics, i would recommend you to search on the quantum no-cloning theorem and bells inequality.

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Well, I remember reading Mr. Tompkins in wonderland when i was a kid. Its basically about a guy who go to a physics lecture which he dont understand, and then during the night he dream he is in a world where relativistic or QM effects happen at ordinary human time/length scales.

Sounds like a quantum rip off of the classic "Flatland."

Also, macroscopic quantum effects like superconductivity (and its less usefull cousin, superfluidity) are interesting and quite easy to get a basic grasp at, though again i cant point you to specific books.

I would love to talk to you more about this. I will be out of the country for a few days, however, and am unsure of my Internet access abroad. If you PM me, I'll give you my email.

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Quantum physics.... any good material to read?

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