Entangled World

Editor: Jürgen Audretsch was born in 1942 in Einbeck, Germany, and studied physics at the Universities of Tübingen and Freiburg. In 1980, he accepted a post as professor for theoretical physics at the University of Constance. His fields of activity were at first the General Relativity Theory and Quantum Field Theory, lately he has been doing research in theoretical quantum optics and the basic principles of quantum theory. Authors: Jürgen Audretsch Carsten Held Robert Löw and Tilman Pfau Gerhard Rempe Harald Weinfurter Reinhard F. Werner Erich Joost Rainer Blatt Michael Esfeld Professor Audretsch has not only published numerous scientific articles which appeared in scientific journals and books, he is also the author of a number of books for a wider readership interested in physics, which depict the relations between physics and philosophy or physics and theology. Professor Jürgen Audretsch Fakultät für Physik der Universität Konstanz Fach M 673 D-78457 Konstanz Germany

Preface
View into the quantum world I: Fundamental phenomena and concepts
View into the quantum world II: Entanglement and its consequences
The Bohr-Einstein debate and the fundamental problem of quantum mechanics
An excursion into the quantum world
Entangled quantum systems: From wave-particle duality to single-photon sources of light
Quantum information
Quantum computers - the new generation of supercomputers?
Decoherence and the transition from quantum physics to classical physics
Quantum information processing - Dream and realization
Quantum theory: A challeng for philosophy!

"Sämtliche Aufsätze sind von hoher Qualität und überaus lesenswert. Durch die unterschiedlichen, individuellen Blickwinkel der Autoren offenbart sich die moderne Quantenphysik als offenes, aktives und spannendes Feld, in dem immer noch dieselbe Aufbruchstimmung herrscht wie in den Frühzeiten ihrer Entwicklung."
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