Speaker
N.D. Hari Dass (TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad)
Date & Time
Wed, 16 January 2019, 11:00 to 12:00
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract
Starting from the standard treatment of Young’s double-slit experiment, I shall discuss the modern viewpoints and introduce various degrees of coherence of light. I shall describe in detail both the classical and the quantum descriptions of the Hanbury-Twiss intensity interference and its deep consequences. I shall then describe variants of the Hanbury-Twiss effect and the notions of bunching and antibunching. I shall conclude by discussing the implications of all these interference experiments for our understanding of quantum mechanics, and by identifying some future directions.