Wojciech H. Zurek

Wojciech Hubert Zurek ( born 1951 ) is an American- Polish theoretical physicist who deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics, information theoretical aspects of physics and astrophysics.

Life and work

Zurek attended high school in Bielsko- Biała, studied at the Technical University of Cracow ( diploma 1974) and in 1979 received his doctorate at the University of Austin in John Archibald Wheeler. He was then at Caltech (two years as Richard Chace Tolman Fellow ) at Murray Gell-Mann and at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow from 1984, 1991 to 1996, group leader for Theoretical Astrophysics and was a Fellow since 1996 the laboratory is. He also teaches at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he led the program for quantum computer science and chaos theory, and the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, where he led the program for "Complexity, Computation and Physics of Information".

Zurek is a leading scientist and co-founder of the decoherence interpretation of quantum mechanics. He is also known for its no- cloning theorem ( with William Wootters ) from 1982.

He is a foreign member of the cosmology program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and founder of the network "Complexity, Entropy and Physics of Information" at the Santa Fe Institute, whose foreign member he was. 2004/ 05 he was Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.

Writings

  • John Wheeler (Editor): Quantum theory of measurement. Princeton University Press, 1983 ( Reprint very influential band)
  • Decoherence and the transition from classical to quantum. Physics Today, October 1991 update in Los Alamos Science 2002
  • Publisher: Complexity, Entropy and Physics of Information. Addison-Wesley 1990
  • Editor with A. van der Merwe, WA Miller: Between Quantum and Cosmos. Princeton University Press, 1988
  • Published by JJ Halliwell, J. Perez- Mercader: Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1994
  • Editor with D. DiVincenzo, E. Knill, R. Laflamme: Quantum Coherence and decoherence. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society. Volume 454, 1998, pp. 257-486
University of Texas at Austin Quantum information science No-Cloning-Theorem Quantum Darwinism
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