Institute Colloquium: Information and the Foundations of Quantum Physics
Date
Monday, December 19, 2011 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Location
Raiffeisen Lecture Hall, Central Building
Series
Colloquium
Tags
Institute Colloquium
Contact
Information plays a central role both in understanding quantum mechanics and as a field of possible applications. With reference to concrete experiments I will review the fundamental phenomena in quantum physics from an information perspective: quantum superposition, quantum entanglement and objective randomness. And I will show how these fundamental concepts are applied in various quantum information protocols like quantum communication, quantum teleportation and quantum computation. I will then discuss recent fundamental experiments made possible by the technological development in quantum information science, which shed new light again on the foundations of quantum physics. In the talk, I will also try to venture into musings about possibilities for application in biological systems.