Quantum Entanglement. Einstein's Spooky Action at a Distance: from Fundamental Experiments to Applications
Quantum entanglement—the connection between separated measurement results was called by Einstein "spooky" action. Erwin Schrödinger called entanglement "the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought".
In the talk, the nature of entanglement will be presented in a way open to the general public. I will mention how experiments moved entanglement out of a philosophical niche. Technological development then led to applications in fields like quantum teleportation and quantum computation. Recent work on entanglement in higher dimensional systems connects entanglement with mutually unbiased bases, a concept invented by Julian Schwinger.
About the Julian Schwinger Lectureship
The Julian Schwinger Lectureship brings thought leaders to Columbia to present broad views of the most exciting developments in modern physics.
It commemorates the scientific legacy of Julian Schwinger (CC’36; GSAS‘39), whose work fundamentally advanced theoretical physics and its applications to fields ranging from high-energy particle physics to condensed matter physics to electrical engineering and whose ideas profoundly influence physics as it is practiced today. It was instituted in honor of a generous gift from the Julian Schwinger Foundation.