Spin, Tunneling, Atoms & the Strange Rules of Reality
The next step after the beginner quantum track: spin and the Stern-Gerlach experiment, quantum tunneling (the trick behind flash memory and the Sun), the Pauli principle that makes matter solid, atomic orbitals and the periodic table, photons and light-matter interaction, decoherence and the measurement problem, Bell's theorem and nonlocality, quantum error correction, a gentle peek at quantum field theory, and the interpretations we still argue about.
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The Stern-Gerlach experiment
The Spin That Doesn't Spin
The scanning tunneling microscope
Walking Through Walls
Pauli's principle and the structure of matter
Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
Bohr's atom and the quantum orbital
The Architecture of Atoms
Quantum electrodynamics — the most precise theory
The Particle of Light
The measurement problem
Where Quantum Becomes Classical
Bell's theorem and the loophole-free tests
The Universe Is Not Local
The race for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Protecting the Fragile
The Standard Model and the quantum vacuum
Fields All the Way Down
The unfinished foundations of quantum mechanics
What Does It All Mean?