Observations turn up the heat

Kimberly R. Chapin and Marlan O. Scully
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Kimberly R. Chapin: Kimberly R. Chapin and Marlan O. Scully are at the Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA. k-chapin@tamu.edu
Marlan O. Scully: Marlan O. Scully is also in the Applied Physics and Materials Science Group, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. scully@tamu.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7188, 705-706

Abstract: The idea that observers can influence what they observe has a history that stretches back beyond quantum physics. That we can affect how a system heats up and cools down simply by probing it is a new twist.

Date: 2008
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