7 Pines 2010 Combined Readings

May 6 (Thursday)

Introduction to entanglement and decoherence [chair: Michel Janssen (Minnesota)]
I. History: Amit Hagar (Indiana), Decoherence & entanglement, a Philosopher's view; readings
II. Theory: William G. Unruh (Vancouver), slides to come; readings

The role of decoherence in the interpretation of QM [chair: John D. Norton (Pittsburgh)]
I. David Wallace (Oxford), Decoherence and the measurement problem; readings
II. Alastair I. M. Rae (Birmingham), slides; readings

May 7 (Friday)

Decoherence in real systems--theory [chair: Don Howard (Notre Dame)]
I. Philip C. E. Stamp (Vancouver), Decoherence in real systems, mechanisms of decoherence; readings
II. Hans J. Briegel (Innsbruck), Entanglement and (de-)coherence in biology; readings

Decoherence and quantum computing [chair: Geoffrey Hellman (Minnesota)]
I. Robert Raussendorf (Vancouver), Decoherence limits quantum computation, or does it?; readings
II. Charles Bennett (IBM), Quantum Information, the Ambiguity of the Past, and the Birth and Death of Complexity; readings

May 8 (Saturday)

Decoherence in real systems--experiment [chair: Philip C. E. Stamp (Vancouver)]
I. Bernard Barbara (Grenoble), Decoherence in Solid State superconducting circuits, quantum dots, magnetic molecules, quantum phase transitions; readings
II. Dirk Bouwmeester (Leyden/Santa Barbara), Towards quantum superpositions of a Mirror; readings

Decoherence in QFT and Cosmology [chair: Serge Rudaz (Minnesota)]
I. Claus Kiefer (Cologne), Decoherence in Cosmology; readings
II. Thomas Banks (Rutgers/Santa Cruz), Quantum mechanics chapter zero; readings