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Profil
| Derzeitige Stellung | Professor W-2 und Äquivalente |
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| Fachgebiet | Theoretische Physik,Atom- und Molekülphysik, Laserphysik,Theoretische Physik der Kondensierten Materie |
| Keywords | Decoherence, quantum chaos, Bose-Einstein condensates, information theory |
Aktuelle Kontaktadresse
| Land | USA |
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| Ort | Los Alamos |
| Universität/Institution | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Institut/Abteilung | Theory Division, T-DOT |
Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| Prof. Dr. Christof Wetterich | Institut für Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
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| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.03.2006 |
Programm(e)
| 2005 | Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Naturwissenschaftler*innen aus den USA |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| Professor Zurek has shaped our modern understanding of the connection and transition between quantum physics and classical physics. The meaning of quantum states and measurements in quantum physics has for a long time remained a philosophical and conceptual discussion. The issue is full of paradoxes, like Schrödinger's question, why a cat cannot be half alive and half dead, or more precisely, cannot be a superposition of these two states. Professor Zurek has promoted the understanding of decoherence, describing quantitatively why and how quantum states become classical. More simply, this tells us why a cat is either alive or dead. Professor Zurek has also made central contributions to quantum information theory. In particular, his "no cloning theorem" is very important for quantum cryptography. In Germany he continues to work on decoherence theory and its applications to ultracold and nonlinear systems |