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DTSTART:20091110T203000Z
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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/486
SUMMARY:Quantum Signals: Noise and Amplification
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Steve Girvin\, Yale University\nHosted by: Anatoli Po
	lkovnikov\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/internal//posters/2009_Fall/08_Gir
	vin.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nAbstract:\nC
	ertain types of modern amplifiers and detectors are now so good that their 
	output noise is limited by constraints imposed upon them by the rules of qu
	antum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.  In the early day
	s of quantum mechanics many gedanken experiments were proposed to explore t
	he strange features of 'wave function collapse' in the measurement process.
	  Today practical versions of these experiments are being performed in the 
	laboratory and theorists must confront this new reality.  This talk will be
	 a very simple and informal introduction to the physics of quantum measurem
	ents\, noise and amplification.
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