Gregg Jaeger is a physicist and philosopher at Boston University specializing in the foundations of quantum theory, who has also made significant contributions to the history of science...
Jaeger is best known for his research into quantum interference that has provided a quantitative basis for the previously qualitative notions of wave-particle duality and quantum holism, which he has clarified by providing quantitative complementarity relations.[1] He has also investigated the ontology of quantum field theory via analyses of the notion of the elementary particle and virtual particle and their theoretically demonstrable or observable attributes. These lines of research are examples of the method of experimental metaphysics, the investigation of metaphysical aspects of science through the discovery of specific relevant scientific results.[2] Jaeger has contributed to quantum information science by quantifying the effect of environmental influences on the quantum properties of physical systems, in particular, the sudden death of quantum entanglement and of Bell inequality violation in systems both of several qubits and pairs of coherent states, and has applied his theoretical work to the practices of quantum cryptography[2] and quantum computing[3]. Philosophically, Jaeger has been critical of the thesis that information is ontologically prior to the physical, that is, the it from bit thesis connected with the Participatory Anthropic Principle, as well as the idea of digital physics (the universe as a computer). His work in the history of science has focused on 20th-century physics. He publishes in physics, the philosophy and history of science, and population genetics; he has authored several books on the foundations of quantum theory, quantum information, the philosophy of physics, and quantum metrology.[3].[4]
Jaeger was the primary subject of a 2020 article on the notion of the virtual particle in Vice magazine.[4]
Early life and education edit
Jaeger received three independent B.Sc. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Physics simultaneously.[5] He completed his Ph.D. in Physics under the supervision of the physicist and philosopher Abner Shimony.[6][7] Jaeger's postdoctoral work was carried out at MIT's Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (in history of science)[5] and National Institute of Standards and Technology (in experimental quantum optics)[6].
Selected Research edit
Complementarity and entangled states in quantum physics edit
Jaeger's research on quantum complementarity and quantum entanglement in quantum physics[8][9][10] has been cited in thousands of articles in peer-reviewed academic journals,[11][12][13] as well as in a number of advanced books and monographs on quantum physics.[14][15][16][17][18][19]
Distinction between two non-orthogonal quantum states edit
Together with Shimony, Jaeger provided a derivation of the optimal distinguishability between two non-orthogonal quantum states, including of qubits when entanglement with the environment is accessible as a resource, demonstrating it to be equal to the Holevo bound on accessible information.[20] This was done using an approach to distinguishability as a classification problem, an approach motivated by von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
The Ehrenfest classification of phase transitions edit
Jaeger wrote the definitive history of the Ehrenfest classification of phase transitions in matter.[21] The classification of general types of transition between phases of matter is foundational to much of the thermodynamical study of critical phenomena. It arose following the discovery in 1932 of the “Lambda transition,” a “jump” discontinuity in the curve giving the temperature dependence of the specific heat of helium at a critical value, which Ehrenfest took as the basis for naming phase transitions on the basis of free energy behavior by various "orders." The publication providing this classification was the last of Paul Ehrenfest's life. Jaeger's comprehensive history of the classification traces its evolution after its introduction both in time and in various languages of Europe and the United States before English became a scientific lingua franca, and exhibits and traces its differential impact across time, languages, and regions.
Selected Bibliography edit
- Books
- Jaeger, Gregg (2007). Quantum information: An overview. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-36944-0. ISBN 978-0-387-35725-6.
- Jaeger, Gregg (2009). Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. The Frontiers Collection. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-92128-8. ISBN 978-3-540-92127-1.[22]
- Bokulich, Alisa; Jaeger, Gregg, eds. (2010). Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement. Cambridge University Press.[23]
- Jaeger, Gregg (2013). Quantum Objects: Non-Local Correlation, Causality and Objective Indefiniteness in the Quantum World. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37629-0. ISBN 978-3-642-37628-3.[24]
- Simon, David; Jaeger, Gregg; Sergienko, Alexander (2017). Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication. Quantum Science and Technology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46551-7. ISBN 978-3-319-46549-4.
- Jaeger, Gregg; Simon, David; Sergienko, Alexander; Greenberger, Daniel; Zeilinger, Anton, eds. (2021). Quantum Arrangements: Contributions in Honor of Michael Horne. Fundamental Theories of Physics. Vol. 203. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77367-0. ISBN 978-3-030-77366-3. S2CID 243087264.
- Scheibe, Erhard (2022). The Reduction of Physical Theories: A Contribution to the Unity of Physics Part 1: Foundations and Elementary Theory. Translated by Falkenburg, Brigitte; Jaeger, Gregg. Springer.
- Book chapters
- Jaeger, Gregg. Measurement and macroscopicity: Overcoming conceptual imprecision in quantum measurement theory. In Bell, M.; Guo, S. (2016). Quantum Nonlocality and Reality: 50 Years of Bell's Theorem. Cambridge University Press. p. 419. ISBN 978-1-107-10434-1.
- Jaeger, Gregg. Clockwork Rebooted: Is the Universe a Computer? In: Khrennikov, A.; Toni, B. (2018). Quantum Foundations, Probability and Information. Springer. p. 71. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74971-6. ISBN 978-3-319-74971-6. S2CID 86686363.
- Journal articles
- Jaeger, Gregg; Shimony, Abner; Lev, Vaidman (August 1993). "Two Interferometric Complementarities". Physical Review A. 51 (2): 1023–1027. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.48.1023. PMID 9909701.
- Jaeger, Gregg; Shimony, Abner (January 1995). "Optimal distinction between two non-orthogonal quantum states". Physics Letters A. 197 (2): 83–87. doi:10.1016/0375-9601(94)00919-G.
- Jaeger, Gregg (May 1998). "The Ehrenfest Classification of Phase Transitions: Introduction and Evolution". Archives for the History of Exact Sciences. 53: 51–81. doi:10.1007/s004070050021. S2CID 121525126.
- Rice, Dien A.; Jaeger, Gregg; Sanders, Barry C. (June 2000). "Two-coherent-state interferometry". Physical Review A. 62 (1): 012101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.62.012101.
- Jaeger, Gregg; Sergienko, A.V.; Saleh, B.E.A.; Teich, M.C. (August 2003). "Entanglement, mixedness, and spin-flip symmetry in multiple-qubit systems". Physical Review A. 68 (2): 022318. arXiv:quant-ph/0307124. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.68.022318. S2CID 10049955.
- Ann, Kevin; Jaeger, Gregg (October 2007). "Local-dephasing-induced entanglement sudden death in two-component finite-dimensional systems". Physical Review A. 76 (4): 044101. arXiv:0709.3233. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.044101. S2CID 119293811.
- Busch, Paul; Jaeger, Gregg (February 2010). "Unsharp Quantum Reality". Foundations of Physics. 40 (9–10): 1341–1367. doi:10.1007/s10701-010-9497-0. S2CID 28138364.
- Jaeger, Gregg (August 2014). "What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic". American Journal of Physics. 82 (9): 896–905. doi:10.1119/1.4878358.
- Jaeger, Gregg (October 2017). "Quantum Potentiality Revisited". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 375 (2106): 20160390. doi:10.1098/rsta.2016.0390. PMID 28971942. S2CID 23180591.
- Jaeger, Gregg (January 2019). "Are Virtual Particles Less Real?". Entropy. 21 (2): 41. doi:10.3390/e21020141. PMC 7514619. PMID 33266857.
- Jaeger, Gregg (February 2021). "Exchange Forces in Particle Physics". Foundations of Physics. 51: 51–81. doi:10.1007/s10701-021-00425-0. S2CID 254512824.
Reference section edit
- ^ Jaeger has often provided general theoretical results demonstrating the ground of striking but isolated observations or has sharpened previous inequalities to equalities
- ^ The term "experimental metaphysics" was advocated by Shimony and appeared as the title of a collection of essays later dedicated to him.
- ^ He also translates landmark books in the philosophy of science, having begun with the last major work of Scheibe, Erhard (2022). The Reduction of Physical Theories: A Contribution to the Unity of Physics Part 1: Foundations and Elementary Theory. Translated by Falkenburg, Brigitte; Jaeger, Gregg. Springer.
- ^ "OK, WTF Are ‘Virtual Particles’ and Do They Actually Exist?", Vice, May 11, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ "Kevin Stoehr and Gregg Jaeger Receive Faculty Awards for Teaching and Service". bu.edu.
- ^ Jaeger [1]
- ^ Shimony had himself been a student of the physicist Eugene Wigner and the philosopher Rudolf Carnap (Mathematics Genealogy Project).
- ^ Jaeger, Gregg; Horne, Michael A.; Shimony, Abner (August 1993). "Complementarity of one-particle and two-particle interference". Physical Review A. 48 (2): 1023–1027. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.48.1023. PMID 9909701.
- ^ Jaeger, Gregg; Shimony, Abner; Vaidman, Lev (January 1995). "Two interferometric complementarities". Physical Review A. 51 (1): 54–67. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.51.54. PMID 9911555.
- ^ Rice, Dien A.; Jaeger, Gregg; Sanders, Barry C. (June 2000). "Two-coherent-state interferometry". Physical Review A. 62 (1): 012101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.62.012101.
- ^ "Complementarity of one-particle and two-particle interference". scholar.google.com.
- ^ "Two interferometric complementarities". scholar.google.com.
- ^ "Two-coherent-state interferometry". scholar.google.com.
- ^ Ghose, Partha (1999). Testing Quantum Mechanics on New Ground. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Barad, Karen (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press.
- ^ Falkenburg, Brigitte (2007). Particle Metaphysics: A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality. The Frontiers Collection. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33732-4. ISBN 978-3-540-33731-7. S2CID 241004444.
- ^ Ijjas, Anna (2011). Der Alte mit dem Wurfel: Ein Beitrag zur Metaphysik der Quantenmechanik. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- ^ de la Peña, Luis; Cetto, Ana María; Hernández, Andrea Valdés (2015). The Emerging Quantum: The Physics Behind Quantum Mechanics. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07893-9. ISBN 978-3-319-07892-2.
- ^ Greenberger, Daniel; Reiter, Wolfgang L.; Zeilinger, Anton (2013). Greenberger, Daniel; Reiter, Wolfgang L.; Zeilinger, Anton (eds.). Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1454-9. ISBN 978-90-481-5354-1.
- ^ Jaeger, Gregg; Shimony, Abner (January 1995). "Optimal distinction between two non-orthogonal quantum states". Physics Letters A. 197 (2): 83–87. doi:10.1016/0375-9601(94)00919-G.
- ^ Jaeger, Gregg; Horne, Michael A.; Shimony, Abner (August 1993). "The Ehrenfest Classification of Phase Transitions: Introduction and Evolution". Archives for the History of Exact Sciences. 53: 51–81. doi:10.1007/s004070050021. S2CID 121525126.
- ^ This book was reviewed by D'Ariano, Giacomo Mauro (Feb 2, 2011). "Gregg Jaeger: Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (The Frontiers Collection)". Quantum Information Processing. 11: 311–312. doi:10.1007/s11128-011-0227-0. S2CID 254991136. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
- ^ This book was reviewed by Norsen, Travis (Feb 11, 2011). "Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
- ^ This book was reviewed by Wayne, Andrew (Feb 22, 2014). "Quantum Objects: Non-Local Correlation, Causality and Objective Indefiniteness in the Quantum World". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
External links section edit
Gregg Jaeger's Professional Homepage:[7]