H. Dieter Zeh

Heinz -Dieter Zeh, often HD Zeh cited, ( born May 8, 1932 in Braunschweig ) is a German theoretical physicist who and other fundamental questions of physics and the physics of time's arrow is engaged in nuclear physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics ( decoherence ).

Life and work

Toe dealt at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, J. Hans D. Jensen first with nuclear physics and studied with Hans -Jörg Mang the alpha -particle formation in nuclei. In 1966 he was a lecturer in Heidelberg. 1964/65 he was a research assistant at Caltech, in 1965 and 1967/68 at the University of California, San Diego. Later he became a professor in Heidelberg, where he is now professor emeritus. He studied since the 1960s with the basic problems of quantum mechanics, in particular with the Many- Worlds Interpretation of Hugh Everett III, where he was in the investigation is left open questions about one of the founders of the theory of decoherence, the 1980s in the years of Wojciech Zurek, Zeh, Erich Joos ( also in Heidelberg ), Claus Kiefer ( who earned his doctorate in toe) and the other was expanded.

Toe wrote a standard work on the direction of time (time arrow) in physics, whose equations are predominantly symmetric with respect to the microscopic level, the time direction.

Writings

  • Physics without reality - profundity or insanity, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-21889-7.
  • Entropy, Fischer Taschenbuch (Fischer Compact), Frankfurt / Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16127-4.
  • The search for the prehistoric arrow, Physical leaves, 1986, p 80
  • The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time, first as the physics of time direction, Springer, Heidelberg 1984, 5th edition 2001, ISBN 3-540-42081-9.
  • Erich Joos, Claus Kiefer, Domenico Giulini, Joachim Kupsch, Ion Olimpio Stamatescu: decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theory, Springer, Heidelberg 1996, 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 3-540-00390-8.
  • Erich Joos: The Emergence of Classical Properties Through Interaction with the Environment, Journal of Physics, Vol 59, 1985, p 273
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