Wave goodbye

Luis A. Orozco
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Luis A. Orozco: Luis A. Orozco is at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. lorozco@umd.edu

Nature, 2007, vol. 448, issue 7156, 872-873

Abstract: When measuring photons, it's a case of 'wanted, dead' — catching them alive is not an option. But we can observe how a superposition of many photon waves progressively collapses as it interacts with a beam of atoms.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1038/448872a

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