Time and the quantum: Erasing the past and impacting the future

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5711, 2005, Pages 875-879

  Aharonov, Yakir ^a,b   Zubairy, M Suhail ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

MICROSCOPIC RESOLUTION; QUANTUM ERASER; QUANTUM PROCESSES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ATOM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FIELD EMISSION; INTERFEROMETRY; KAON; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; SPACE; TIME; WAVEFORM;

EID: 13644256328     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107787     Document Type: Review

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