Boston University
Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
(
CGS)
C.V. (
e-Portfolio)
Areas of Publication:
Quantum Information and Metrology,
Foundations of Quantum
Theory,
Philosophy of Science,
Genetics.

 
Academic profile:
Professor Jaeger offers courses in quantum mechanics, statistical
mechanics, quantum information,
statistics, the mathematics of computation, and the history and philosophy of physics.
He has published
two monographs and an edited volume, numerous journal articles and book chapters, and two patents.
Significant projects on which he has worked include the DARPA Quantum Network Testbed Project.


Books:
Quantum Information
Gregg Jaeger (Springer, 2007)
Entanglement, Information, and the
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Gregg Jaeger (Springer, 2009)
Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement
Alisa Bokulich and Gregg Jaeger (eds.) (Cambridge U. Press, in press)
Representative Publications (click for all articles and bookchapters):
- "Finite-time destruction of entanglement and non-locality
by environmental influences,"
K. Ann and G. S. Jaeger,
Foundations of Physics 39, 790 (2009).
- "Local-dephasing-induced entanglement sudden death
in two-component finite-dimensional systems,''
K. Ann and G.S. Jaeger, Physical Review A 76, 044101 (2007).
- "Bell gems: the Bell basis generalized,''
G.S. Jaeger, Physics Letters A 329, 425 (2004).
- "Entanglement, mixedness, and spin-flip symmetry in multiple-qubit states,"
G. S. Jaeger, A. V. Sergienko, B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich,
Physical Review A 68, 022318 (2003) .
- "Quantum information processing and precise optical measurement...,"
A.V. Sergienko and G. S. Jaeger,
Contemporary Physics 44, 341 (2003).
- "Multi-photon interferometry,''
G. S. Jaeger and A. V. Sergienko,
in E. Wolf, Progress in Optics, Vol. 42 (Kluwer, 2001).
- "An extremum principle for a neutron diffraction experiment,"
G. S. Jaeger and A. Shimony,
Foundations of Physics 29, 435 (1999).
- "The Ehrenfest classification of phase transitions..."
G. S. Jaeger, Archives for History of Exact Sciences 53, 51 (1998).
- "Two interferometric complementarities,"
G. S. Jaeger, A. Shimony and L. Vaidman,
Physical Review A 51, 54 (1995).
Graduate Student (Dept. of Physics
(CAS)): Kevin Ann
Related Video lectures:
John Bell lecture
on quantum mechanics, Trieste 1989
Bell lectures on indeterminism and non-locality, Geneva 1990
Bell inequality tests of Aspect et al., 1986 (with Aspect and Bell)
Abner
Shimony on open problems in quantum foundations
Hans Bethe's popular lectures on development of quantum physics
Nobel
interviews (e.g. Heisenberg, in German)
Danish documentary on the Bohr-Einstein debate
Documentary on the work of Claude Shannon