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'Light' Part 2 - Harnessing a single photon

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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What's the use of just one photon, the smallest bit of light? And what does it take to study it?
We speak to Joelle Boutari about her work in quantum photonics where she's harnessing single photons, trying to understand their beheaviour better, all part of paving the way to better understand quantum features - the weird and unintuitive phenomena that you see at the smallest scales. Joelle describes her experiments and her hopes for the research.

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
People
Joelle Boutari
Keywords
Physics
quantum
light
photonics
quantum computers
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 27/07/2016
Duration: 00:06:39

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