Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism

Wojciech Hubert Zurek is a Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos. Credited with developing the theory of decoherence, he is also known for Quantum Darwinism, the no-cloning theorem (a cornerstone of quantum information) and quantum discord. Applications of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism that describes creation of topological defects in phase transitions range from cosmology to condensed matter physics. Zurek is a recipient of the Smoluchowski and Los Alamos Medals and a Humboldt Prize. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Science and Technology in Cracow (AGH), the Jagiellonian University, and was Einstein Professor at the Ulm University.