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Explaining the second quantum revolution

15 Aug 2013

The Quantum Divide: Why Schrödinger’s Cat is Either Dead or Alive
Christopher Gerry and Kimberley Bruno
2013 Oxford University Press £25.00/$44.95hb 208pp

Conceptual image of a wavefunction passing through beam splitters and other optics
Revolutionary ideas: photon experiments form part of modern quantum mechanics. (Courtesy: M Bellini)
  The first quantum revolution was a revolution in atomic and subatomic physics, and it brough

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Jonathan Jones is a physicist at the University of Oxford and founding member of the Oxford Centre for Quantum Computation
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