Seminar: Vlatko Vedral

 

Monday 22 December, 2014 at 1:00 PM

IPB room "Zvonko Marić"

 

Non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics


Prof. Vlatko Vedral, Oxford University

 

Prof. Vedral is winner of Marko Jaric award (2011) , as well as numerous other awards. He is one of the top world-renowned experts in the field of quantum information theory.

 

Some of the known results and publications:

Text books on quantum optics and entanglement:

 * Modern Foundations of Quantum Optics
   <http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/p380.html> (Imperial College
   Press, 2005)
 * Introduction to Quantum Information Science
   <http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Physics/QuantumPhysics/?view=usa&ci=9780199215706>
   (Oxford University Press, 2006)
 * Introductory Quantum Physics and Relativity
   <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introductory-Quantum-Physics-Relativity-Vlatko/dp/1848165153/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263160919&sr=8-3>
   (Imperial College Press, 2010)

Reviews of entanglement & quantum information:

 * Review of Many-Body Entanglement
   <http://www.vlatkovedral.org/old/articles/rmp.pdf> (Rev. Mod. Phys)
 * Review of Macroscopic Entanglement
   <http://www.vlatkovedral.org/nature07124.pdf> (Nature, 2008)
 * Entanglement Concepts <http://www.vlatkovedral.org/26.1_CONCEPTS.pdf>
 * The Role of Relative Entropy in Quantum Information Theory.
   <http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.74.197>Rev. Mod. Phys.
   74, 197 (2002).
 * The Physics of Maxwell's Demon and Information.
   <http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1> Rev. Mod. Phys.
   81, 1 (2009).
 * Quantum Physics meets biology <http://dx.doi.org/10.2976/1.3244985>
   (PDF) <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2976/1.3244985> (HFSP
   Jounal, 2009)