Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation by Anton Zeilinger (PDF)

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Einstein’s steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as “spooky action at a distance” the notion that two elementary particles far removed from each other could nonetheless influence each other’s properties—a hypothetical phenomenon his fellow theorist Erwin Schrödinger termed “quantum entanglement.”In a series of ingenious experiments conducted in various locations—from a dank sewage tunnel under the Danube River to the balmy air between a pair of mountain peaks in the Canary Islands—the author and his colleagues have demonstrated the reality of such entanglement using photons, or light quanta, created by laser beams. In principle the lessons learned may be applicable in other areas, including the eventual development of quantum computers.

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⭐This book is by Anton Zeilinger, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022. Highly respected by fellow physicists, Zeilinger shows he is a master of explaining a very difficult subject. There are minor deficiencies in which mathematical terms are used in the explaination but are themselves left unexplained. This is largely unavoidable but readers should be aware that they need to learn, or brush up on, the basic facts of electromagnetic waves and how such waves move in space. All in all, the message is clear: quantum mechanics describes the phenomenon of the observed behavior of matter at it smallest observable level and must either be accepted as a limit of information about nature, or as a still unsolved mystery incomprehensible by prior theory.

⭐I hate Alice. I hate Bob. Reading this book is maddening. I just want to get a clear description of the phenomena of entanglement. I figured you can’t do any better than read it author Anton Zeilinger, the world’s greatest authority on quantum entanglement experiments. But the text is ensnared and enmeshed in endless dumbing down in this book. It is as though one bought a book, “The Workings of a Lamborghini” written by Lamborghini himself, and it describes driving to the beach, and driving to the mountain top, and getting gas, and changing the oil, and watching the speedometer, but you never get to see the pistons, crank, chain, hydraulics, etc. — there is no math nor attempt to describe how entanglement looks and works mathematically. There are other “equation free” physics books that manage nevertheless to describe their mathematical “engines” quite concretely, also written by preeminent physicists —

⭐, and its antiparticle,

⭐.Trying to pick up physics from physics books and papers (and even physicists!) can be very frustrating because they tend to be complacent and content to stay within physics jargon, and not translate it to the basic mathematical objects that they are in fact talking about. In mathematics one also runs into multi-story jargon, for example in algebraic geometry, which makes it very difficult to learn. But in the mathematics literature, the jargon is irreducible, because it is tagging abstract concepts built atop other abstract concepts. You simply have to climb the building from the ground floor. But the jargon in physics can be unpacked with a little insight on behalf of the writer — and empathy. A supremely wonderful example of this is Roger Penrose’s

⭐. It is the most clarifying book I’ve read in physics. It is a revelation. I hoped Dance of the Photons would be a good sequel expanding on entanglement.Dance of the Photons takes forever to get to the point, and chooses to avoid jargon by simply avoiding the details of the underlying mathematics. I suppose there is a large class of readers for whom this is optimal. But for me, it’s a problem of impedance matching. Jargon filled papers have too high impedance — and the energy is deflected. This book has too low impedance — and the energy likewise deflects away.As a kid I read Scientific American, and I always felt dumb because I could never really understand what they were talking about. Only later as an adult in going back to some of those articles did I realize that I didn’t understand because the article never gave the actual theory of what was going on … they were too dumbed down, and it was impossible to get the real material from their content. This book, unfortunately, is squarely within that tradition, and while it clearly has interesting content, it is simply too frustrating wading through the packaging to make it enjoyable to this particular reader.

⭐Not easy to read, read this a months before he got the Prize…but his step by step experimental journey to verify the Entanglement is so adventurous. Now he got a Nobel prize with these life long meticulous experimentations.

⭐”Dance of the Photons” is a remarkable book. I recommend it to all who have an interest in modern physics. Surprisingly, it requires very little modern physdics background, being written for non professional readers. The world appears on the threshhold of a huge and fundamental breakthrough in fundamental physics, the most fundamental in the history of theoretical physics, being led by the Institute located in Vienna (Austria). For years, Einstein taught that the speed of light is a fundamental maximum for the transmission of information; a teaching that now appears to be wrong, in spite of Einstein’s endorsement. There is indeed, compelling evidence that information can be transmitted at higher speeds than “c”, with practical demonstrations of essentially instantaneous propagation over paths in excess of several hundred Kilometers demonstrated with relative ease.Remarkably, this book avoids obscure theoretical demonstrations, and is, indeed, readable by the average technically inclined reader without using obscure or hard to understand mathematics. The examples presented are straightforward and easy to grasp by readers with little more than High School education.Not all implications are developed in detail, and any imaginative reader will have much to inspire his or her imagination! There are other treatments of the same principles for those who prefer more obscure treatments, but there is sufficient “meat” here to shake your belief in the completeness of contemporary modern physics … and give you pause in contemplating what the implications will be over the next few decades, Those implications are profound, to say the least!Thank you, Anton Zeilinger and team!

⭐Professor Zeilinger drops a hint,helping the public unravel the mysteries of quantum teleportation by means of various experiments and clarified images,in very simplistic way,easy to comprehend by anyone familiar with elementary knowledge of quantum mechanics and without degree in the physical sciences.In the first half of the book fictional characters and famous protagonists (Alice and Bob) entangled in a world with real experiments dialogue to grasp the key concepts of quantum information.The reader faces the principles of quantum teleportation (EPR source,entanglement,Bell-state measurement,quantoclassical channels,flipiti-flapati,Bell’s theorem,comes across Bell’s inequalities (an appendix on them),scores,and strive to understand the meaning of locality,reality,etc and their loopholes.The other half is focused on generalizing the complex mechanisms and experiments needed to achieve this Odyssey of teleported information,spontaneous parametric down-conversion to create polarization-entangled photons,teleportation at the Danube river,multiphoton entanglement,teleporting entanglement and many more fantabulous ideas.Written with clarity and pellucid style it’s the perfect book for noobies as introduction.I loved it.

⭐Flüssig geschrieben. Der Leser wird anhand eines Experimentes “spielend” in die unglaubliche Welt der Quantenkommunikation eingeführt. Dieses Thema hat durch den Start des chinesischen Quantensatelitten 8/2016 stark an Aktualität gewonnen!

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⭐Anton Zeilinger uses his expertise as a leading experimentalist in the field of quantum optics to explain what entanglement, superposition and teleportation are about. He introduces the reader to the subject describing simple (however non-trivial) experiments.

⭐I was suggested by my friend to read this book. To be honest, my background is not quantum physics. However, it is not difficult for me to read it.

⭐Much as I’m interested in the fascinating mysteries of quantum physics, I could not read this book beyond its first half, not because of its difficulty but of the way it is written. The reader is introduced to two fictional characters borrowed from the literature on cryptography, Alice and Bob, who are given assignments by a Professor Quantinger under the supervision of his assistant. This leads to lengthy conversations and futile comments such as “Bob is ready for a coffee break, and he suggests printing the two lists out and meeting at the cafeteria”. My reaction to this kind of prose was “get to the point” and to jump to the last lines of chapters to know what they’re all about. But if you don’t mind procrastinations maybe you’ll like this book.

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