Entangled World The Fascination of Quantum Information and Computation

by Audretsch, Jü; rgen

• ISBN13: 9783527404704
• ISBN10: 3527404708
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

In the quantum world, a particle can behave like a wave and accordingly seems to be in two places at the same time. This of course is contradictory to our daily experiences with classical particles. How then should this be understood? What happens in the transitional area between the classical world and quantum mechanics? The present book answers exciting questions like these in a way that is easy to follow and to understand and is shows that the link between these two worlds will have concrete and applied effects on our daily life in the near future. It will, for example, improve and change the conventional methods of information processing. With the help of quantum cryptography, it will be possible to communicate tap-proof. Using quantum computers we will be able to solve highly complicated problems in a very short time.

Author Biography

<b>J&amp;uuml;rgen Audretsch</b> was born in 1942 in Einbeck, Germany, and studied physics at the Universities of T&amp;uuml;bingen and Freiburg. In 1980, he accepted a post as professor for theoretical physics at the University of Constance. His fields of activity were at first the General Relativity Theory and Quantum Field Theory, lately he has been doing research in theoretical quantum optics and the basic principles of quantum theory.<br> Professor Audretsch has not only published numerous scientific articles which appeared in scientific journals and books, he is also the author of a number of books for a wider readership interested in physics, which depict the relations between physics and philosophy or physics and theology.

Table of Contents

Preface

View into the quantum world I: Fundamental phenomena and concepts

View into the quantum world II: Entanglement and its consequences

The Bohr-Einstein debate and the fundamental problem of quantum mechanics

An excursion into the quantum world

Entangled quantum systems: From wave-particle duality to single-photon sources of light

Quantum information

Quantum calculators - the new generation of supercomputers?

Decoherence and the transition from quantum physics to classical physics

Quantum theory: A challenges for philosophy!