Exploring the Quantum

Serge HarocheProfessor, Collège de FranceLaboratoire Kastler-Brossel,départment de physique de l'Ecole normale supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 ParisProfessor at Collège de France (Chaire de Physique Quantique) since 2001Member of the French Academy of Sciences since 1993Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1975-2000) and at Ecole Normale Supérieure (1984-2000).Maître de Conférence at Ecole Polytechnique (1975-1984)Professor (part time) at Yale University (1984-1993)Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France (1991-2000)Fellow of the Americal Physical Society (1990)Prix Ricard of French Physical Society (1983)Michelson Medal of Franklin Insitute (1993)Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society (2002)Jean-Michel RaimondProfessor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie et Institut Universitaire de FranceLaboratoire Kastler-Brossel, départment de physique de l'Ecole normale supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 ParisProfessor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie since 1988Junior member of Institut Universitaire de France, 1994-1999Senior member of Institut Universitaire de France, Quantum Optics chair, 2001-Ampère Prize of the French Academy of Sciences with M. Brune, 1998Chargé de recherches CNRS 1983-1988Attaché de recherches CNRS 1979-1983

• 1. Unveiling the quantum ; 2. Strangeness and power of the quantum ; 3. Of spins and springs ; 4. The environment is watching ; 5. Photons in a box ; 6. Seeing light in subtle ways ; 7. Taming Schrodinger's cats ; 8. Atoms in a box ; 9. Entangling matter waves ; Appendix: Representation of quantum states in phase space

'A gem and a must-read for any student of quantum physics, from advanced undergraduate to expert.' Physics Today, August 2007