Gregg Jaeger Co-Authors Book on Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication
Gregg Jaeger’s new book, Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication, carries on Jaeger’s interdisciplinary work in the field of quantum mechanics and quantum information.
Published by Springer press in 2017, the book is co-authored with Jaeger (associate professor of natural science and mathematics at the College of General Studies), David Simon (BU alumnus and professor at Stonehill College) and Alexander V. Sergienko (professor at BU College of Engineering). The textbook is designed for an audience of graduate students and other researchers in the field of quantum science and technology. It aims to provide an introduction to the basics and applications of quantum mechanics as it explains new techniques that are driving the field forward.
Jaeger said the book is the culmination—in textbook form—of work taking place over the last twenty years through the Quantum Communication and Measurement Laboratory at BU. In the Preface, the authors write that Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication responds to a “major shift of interest” in the field of quantum mechanics, as quantum-few particle systems and entangled systems play a growing role in the field. (Quantum entanglement occurs when the quantum state of a pair or group of particles cannot be described independently of the others.)
The authors intend to explore “some of the new developments that have arisen from the idea of entanglement” and how these developments “have led to new or improved methods for carrying out practical applications.” Jaeger contributed heavily to the book’s theoretical underpinnings.
Jaeger exemplifies the CGS focus on interdisciplinary inquiry as he integrates mathematics, philosophy, physics and engineering into his work on quantum theory. Recent advances in physics theories, particularly quantum entanglement, unsettle people’s working understanding of the world and how it operates. Jaeger aims to integrate these theories with the rest of science and philosophy by considering quantum objects as actual objects that can be analyzed, taken apart, composed, or decomposed.
Jaeger has had a prolific year in scholarship. Earlier this year, he contributed a chapter to the new, high-profile book Quantum Nonlocality and Reality (Cambridge University Press, September 2016). He also had an article published in the journal Mathematics and another in the journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. He and his fellow co-authors published an article in Quantum Information Processing. His previous, more philosophically-oriented book, Quantum Objects: Non-Local Correlation, Causality and Objective Indefiniteness in the Quantum World, was published in 2014.
Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communications is now available on Amazon Kindle and will be available in hardcover copy later this year.