A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen, "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?," Phys. Rev., 47, 777 (1935).

This is the original "EPR" paper, in which Einstein and his colleagues argue that quantum mechanics can't be right.  We'll uncover what was wrong with their arguments.

Discussion led by: Me, unless someone volunteers.

J. S. Bell, "On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics," Rev. Mod. Phys. 38, 447 (1966).

This is a follow-up to last weeks paper.  We read both of these papers last year and they were very interesting.  All of the students who were present at the discussion last time have graduated.  Plus,  I wanted to come back to them, because there were some loose ends --- we thought that there might be an error in this landmark paper, and I hope someone smart enough to answer my questions will show up to journal club this week :)

Discussion led by: Me, unless someone volunteers.

Arthur Zajonc, " Light Reconsidered," Optics and Photonics News, 14, S2-S5 October (2003).

This is an interesting and not too difficult to read paper on the nature of light.  Note that this link is to a file containing several papers.  We will only be discussing pages S-2 through S-5.

Discussion led by: Me, unless someone volunteers.

No journal club today while we try to find a better meeting time.

No journal club today

Arthur Zajonc, " Light Reconsidered," Optics and Photonics News, 14, S2-S5 October (2003).

This is an interesting and not too difficult to read paper on the nature of light.  Note that this link is to a file containing several papers.  We will only be discussing pages S-2 through S-5.

Discussion led by: Me, unless someone volunteers.

B Neyenhuis, D. Christensen, D. S. Durfee, "Testing non-classical theories of electromagnetism with ion interferometry," Submitted to PRL.

This is a paper which we hope will soon be published in PRL.  I thought it would be fun for us to read and discuss --- and I would welcome any suggestions as to things which could be improved before it is published.

Discussion led by: Me, unless someone volunteers.

Frank DiFilippo, Vasant Natarajan, Kevin R. Boyce, and David E. Pritchard,  "Classical amplitude squeezing for precision measurements," PRL 68, 2859 (1992)

Discussion led by: I'll just pick someone.

Feel free to send me a suggestion.

H. Paul and M. Pavicˇic, "Nonclassical interaction-free detection of objects in a monolithic total-internal-reflection resonator," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 14, 1275 (1997).

Discussion to be led by Chris Erickson

Feel free to send me a suggestion.

Feel free to send me a suggestion.