Public Lecture - The Story of Stopped Light

Speaker: Prof. Ronald Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Topic: "The Story of Stopped Light"

Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Place: GMCS 333 (Geology,Math,Comp.Sci Building)

Abstract: Recent experiments have shown that a pulse of light can be brought to a stop in a specially-prepared cloud of atoms, and then re-accelerated and released on command.
This public lecture will describe how stopped light is a new manifestation of the rules of quantum mechanics, with potential applications to ultra-secure quantum communication.

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