From computers to information security, from GPS to magnetic resonance imaging machines: these are the many technologies that have marked the 20th century, all possible thanks to the principles of quantum mechanics. A revolution still underway. It ends with 'How much. The revolution in one leap' today 28 March between 5pm and 6pm, the series of events organized live on YouTube by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, dedicated to high school students and all the curious.
They may appear paradoxical but precisely the most bizarre principles of quantum mechanics, such as probability and uncertainty, contain unimaginable possibilities for advances in knowledge and technology. Quantum mechanics is the basis of modern technology: computers, cell phones, instruments for diagnostics or medical therapy, such as magnetic resonance imaging or PET, atomic clocks that synchronize time around the world and operate GPS in space, up to to quantum computing and the most modern cryptography and sensing techniques.
Quantum technologies have transformed the society of the 20th century and will transform that of the future, wiping away the initial skepticism aroused by the theory. Valter Bonvicini, researcher at the Infn of Trieste and coordinator of projects dedicated to quantum technologies, talks about it, to discover how quantum mechanics has revolutionized not only science but also society today and in the future. It is the last of the five meetings organized on the topic by Infn and which as always will see a live connection with the exhibition "Quanto. The revolution in a leap" at the Muse in Trento, visiting the Paradossi section of the exhibition.
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