After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand quantum-mechanical basic principles and to use laboratory processes to observe them. The experimental results have to be processed and discussed in a scientific way.
There are 7 experimental setups available:
Entangled photons and Bell's inequality, Inteference of two photons, Optical resonators, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Laserspectroscopy of Rubidium, Quantum noise, Neutron interferometry
Manuals can be downloaded from TISS.
Some remarks concerning the downloads below:
Bell experiment + 2-photon experiment: The physics behind these experiments is treated in detail in the lecture "Quantum optics II" by Arno Rauschenbeutel.
Especially questions like "Why does the Bell experiment disprove local realism" can not be answered without a little bit of math.
In case you did not have a chance to follow the lecture, you can find a short argumentation (By Stefanie Barz, Uni Wien) and Bell's original paper in the download documents.
Contact Dr. Haslinger (philipp.haslinger@tuwien.ac.at).
