Prof.
Don Howard
(Univ. of Notre Dame, USA)
28/08/2007, 09:00
This talk traces the history of quantum entanglement from Einstein's
earliest worries in 1905-at the time of the photon hypothesis paper-about
the failure of the mutual independence of quanta outside of the Wien
regime, through his early speculations ca. 1909 about wave-particle duality
and his first clear and deep insight into the mutual dependence of systems
obeying bosonic...
Dr
Lucia Hackermuller
(Johannes-Gutenberg University Mayence)
28/08/2007, 09:45
We use a near field interferometer of Talbot-Lau type to investigate the
wave particle duality of large molecules such as C70 fullerenes. This
device is also well suited to study the quantum-to-classical transition
via decoherence mechanisms that occur quite naturally in such an
interferometer. Interactions of the interfering particle with the
surrounding environment lead to a collapse of...
Prof.
Aurelio Bay
(EPFL, Switzerland)
28/08/2007, 10:45
The neutral B-meson pair produced at the Upsilon(4S) should exhibit
a non-local correlation of the type discussed by Einstein, Podolski, and
Rosen. The time-dependent flavour asymmetry of the B mesons decaying into
flavour eigenstates will be used to test such a correlation.
The asymmetry obtained from semileptonic B0 decays
is in agreement with the prediction from quantum
mechanics...
