France Chicago collection

"Great voices in research : A CNRS Editions / De Vive Voix collection. This book was originally published in the collection Les Grandes Voix de la Recherche, which presents the work of winners of the CNRS Gold Medal, the highst scientific research award in France."--Page facing title page

Foreword / David Kaiser -- Two quantum revolutions -- The first quantum revolution -- Wave-particle duality -- The success of the first quantum revolution -- The second quantum revolution -- Entanglement measurement experiments -- The manipulation of quantum objects -- Quantum information -- Quantum cryptography -- In search of the limit

"At the start of the twentieth century, the first quantum revolution upset our vision of the world. New physics offered surprising realities, such as wave-particle duality, and led to major inventions: the transistor, the laser, and computer's integrated circuits. Less known is the second quantum revolution, arguably initiated in 1935 during a debate between giants Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. This revolution is still unfolding. Its revolutionaries--including the author of this short accessible book, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Alain Aspect--explore the notion of entangled particles, able to interact at seemingly impossible distances. Aspect has investigated entangled particles since the beginning of the 1980s and has helped to show how entanglement may both upend existing technologies, like cryptography, and usher in entirely new ones, like quantum computing. Explaining this physics of the future, this work tells a story of how philosophical debates can shape new realities"--

According to publisher's website (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/FRCHCO.html), this volume forms part of the France Chicago Collection