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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Quantum Optics,Theoretical Physics |
| Keywords | Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik, Quantencomputer, Quanteninformation, Quantenkommunikation, Quantenoptik |
Current contact address
| Country | Austria |
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| City | Wien |
| Institution | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| Institute | Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek | Präsidialamt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Martin Wilkens | Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam |
| Prof. Dr. Oliver Benson | Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2001 |
Program(s)
| 2000 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Physics, when viewed as a philosophical enterprise rather than a technological project, aims at the unraveling of the laws of nature, its basic building blocks, and ist intimate relation to our capabilities to probe and picture reality. Professor Zeilinger, in his ground breaking experiments on the diffraction of macro molecules has demonstrated that the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality can be carried from the atomic scale to the mesoscopic scale of the building blocks of life. In his experiments with twin photons he has shown that the epistemic categories of information and physical categories of quantum mechanics are - in a yet mysterious ways - fundamentally entangled, and that the laws of quantum mechanics not only govern our technological progress, but in particular provide the framework for a systematic theory of knowledge, of learning and of information processing. |