A short introduction
Prof. Popescu is a theoretical physicist whose research centres on conceptual and fundamental problems in quantum mechanics. He is one of the pioneers of quantum information and he is best known for his work on entanglement and the associated phenomenon of non-locality. His results were instrumental in putting entanglement and non-locality at the very core of our present-day understanding of quantum theory. He also designed a scheme that led to the experimental demonstration of quantum teleportation. More recently, Prof. Popescu contributed to the foundations of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, where the application of new concepts and tools originating from quantum information led to a completely new approach to the subject. He was awarded several prizes including the 2016 Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics, and the 2011 John Stewart Bell Prize. Prof. Popescu is currently Professor of Physics, School of Physics, University of Bristol, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, UK.Publications:
A deep dive into quantum non-locality and its implications
Hans Busstra, together with Essentia Foundation’s research fellow, physicist Lidia Del Rio, talks to Prof. Sandu Popescu about quantum non-locality. Popescu is Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He did pioneering work in what became the field of quantum information and has won both the John Stuart Bell Prize and the Dirac Medal.
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