A Tale of Two Anachronisms
The main research of Lev Vaidman is in the fields of Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information. Most of his works belong to theoretical physics, but he also performs some experimental work in quantum optics and writes philosophical papers on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. His main contributions are variants of quantum measurements: interaction-free measurements (the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb problem), protective measurements, weak measurements (the Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman Effect), non-local measurements (which led to discovery of teleportation of continuous variables). In the area of Quantum Information he invented a secret key distribution with quantum particles in orthogonal states (the Goldenberg-Vaidman protocol), quantum gambling, and practically secure bit commitment. The main tool of his research is the analysis of paradoxes such as the 3-box paradox, the paradox of a photon being at a place through which it cannot pass and more. The Paradoxes help him achieve the goal of deeper understanding of locality and randomness in Nature. (source: Tel Aviv University)
EmQM15 – Ensembles of Bohmian trajectories: Real, Surreal, and Hyper-real
EmQM15 – Two-electron system correlated by the zero-point field: physical explanation for the spin-statistics connection
EmQM15 – The Quantum pigeonhole principle and localizing Kochen-Specker contextuality with weak measurements
EmQM15 – Probing “surreal” elements of quantum physics using weak measurements
EmQM15 – Measurements on the Reality of the Wavefunction
Prof. Ana María Cetto, Research professor of the Institute of Physics and lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ana María Cetto is a full-time research Professor at the Institute of Physics, and lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She holds an M.A. in Biophysics from Harvard University and a M.S c and Ph.D in Physics from UNAM. Her main field of research is theoretical physics, with emphasis on the foundations of quantam mechanics, where she has contributed substantially to the development of stochastic electrodynamics. She is co-author of "The Quantum Dice" (Kluwer, 1996). Prof. Cetto is the former Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, and former head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Institute of Physics. She chaired the project for the Museum on Light (UNAM), inaugurated in 1996. She served as consultant for the UNESCO World Conference of Science (1999). From 2003 to 2010 she served as Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Nobel Peace Prize 2005), where she headed the Department of Technical Cooperation. She is founding President of LATINDEX, online information system for Ibero-American and Caribbean scholary journals. Prof Cetto has held honorary positions in a number of international organisations, such as the Executive Boards of Interciencia Association, Third World Organisation for Women in Science (TWOWS, Co-founder) and International Council for Science (ICSU), the Board of Trustees of International Foundation for Science (IFS), the Governing Board of United Nations University (UNU), the Council of International Network of Engineers and Scientists (INES) and the Executive Committee of Pugwash Conferences (Nobel Peace Prize 1995). She was appointed Mexico's Woman of the Year in 2003.
EmQM15 – Ignorance governs quantum experiments
