Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Light Collapses Step-By-Step

This is such a cool experiment. They are able to make non-destructive measurement of the photon number in a superconducting cavity, and then as they successively make this measurement, they begin to see the result converging (collapsing?) to a single number. Just exactly what quantum mechanics described!

The exact citation for this paper is C. Guerlin et al. Nature 448, 889 (2007).

Zz.

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