Quantum physics: observations turn up the heat. Academic Article

abstract

• The idea that observers can influence what they observe has a history that stretches back beyond quantum physics. That we can affect how a system heats up and cools down simply by probing it is a new twist. 2008 Nature Publishing Group.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• Nature

author list (cited authors)

• Chapin, K. R., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Chapin, Kimberly R||Scully, Marlan O

publication date

• April 2008

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Nature  Journal

keywords

• Hot Temperature
• Lasers
• Observation
• Quantum Theory
• Uncertainty

PubMed Central ID

• 18401399

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/452705a

start page

• 705

end page

• 706

volume

• 452

issue

• 7188

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/452705a