Slow light : invisibility, teleportation and other mysteries of light / / Sidney Perkowitz
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| Autore: |
Perkowitz S
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| Titolo: |
Slow light : invisibility, teleportation and other mysteries of light / / Sidney Perkowitz
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Imperial College Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (156 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 535 |
| Soggetto topico: | Light - Speed |
| Light - Transmission | |
| Quantum optics | |
| Photons | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 What is Light? The Mystery Continues; Chapter 2 Why is Light so Fast?; Chapter 3 Can Anything Go Even Faster?; Chapter 4 Slow, Stopped, Fast, and Backwards Light; Chapter 5 Extreme and Entangled Light; Chapter 6 Invisibility; Chapter 7 Light Fantasy to Light Reality; Faster than Light Travel; Faster than Light Communication; Slow, Stopped, Fast, Backwards, and Left-Handed Light; Quantum Information Technology with Light; Laser Fusion; Invisibility; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Further Reading, Surfing, and Viewing |
| Chapter 1 What is Light? The Mystery ContinuesBackground and popular treatments; Chapter 2 Why is Light so Fast?; Background and popular treatments; For readers who want more detail; Chapter 3 Can Anything Go Even Faster?; Background and popular treatments; Fictional treatments; For readers who want more detail; Chapter 4 Slow, Stopped, Fast, and Backwards Light; Background and popular treatments; Fictional treatments; For readers who want more detail; Chapter 5 Extreme and Entangled Light; Background and popular treatments; Fictional treatments; For readers who want more detail | |
| Chapter 6 InvisibilityBackground and popular treatments; Fictional treatments; For readers who want more detail; Chapter 7 Light Fantasy to Light Reality; Background and popular treatments; For readers who want more detail; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Slow Light is a popular treatment of today's astonishing breakthroughs in the science of light. Even though we don't understand light's quantum mysteries, we can slow it to a stop and speed it up beyond its Einsteinian speed limit, 186,000 miles/sec; use it for quantum telecommunications; teleport it; manipulate it to create invisibility; and perhaps generate hydrogen fusion power with it. All this is lucidly presented for non-scientists who wonder about teleportation, Harry Potter invisibility cloaks, and other fantastic outcomes. Slow Light shows how the real science and the fantasy inspire |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Slow light |
| ISBN: | 1-283-43323-0 |
| 9786613433237 | |
| 1-84816-753-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822391503321 |
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