The mystery of the lost coherence

Seminar author:Alfredo Luis Aína

Event date and time:07/18/2018 02:30:pm

Event location:Seminar room

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Coherence is understood as a fundamental concept in optics and in quantum physics. However, it has the peculiarity of not being a phenomenon in itself and it only manifests through other phenomena. Although this seemed to be well understood long ago, the new physics proposes scenarios which challenge the interpretation of this concept.