Berthold-Georg (BERGE) Englert

Dr. rer. nat., University of T¨ubingen, Germany (1981)

Emeritus Professor

Complementarity and wave-particle duality
Quantum optics: micromaser theory; master equations; cavity QED (review article in 2006)
Quantum information: quantum cryptography (“Singapore protocol” 2004); quantum communication; quantum computation; mutually unbiased bases (review article 2010); quantum state tomography and estimation; sampling from the quantum state space
Ultracold trapped fermionic atoms

M. O. Scully, B.-G. Englert, and H. Walther, Quantum optical tests of complementarity, Nature 351, 111–116 (1991) [603/1046 citations (Web of Science/Google Scholar)]
B.-G. Englert, Fringe Visibility and Which-Way Information: An Inequality, Physical Review Letters 77, 2154–2157 (1996) [504/856 citations]
H. Walther, B. T. H. Varcoe, B.-G. Englert, and T. Becker, Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Reports on Progress in Physics 69, 1325–1382 (2006) [477/878 citations]
T. Busch, B.-G. Englert, K. Rza¸ ˙zewski, and M. Wilkens, Two Cold Atoms in a Harmonic Trap, Foundations of Physics 28, 549–559 (1998) [477/770 citations]
A. Beige, B.-G. Englert, C. Kurtsiefer, and H. Weinfurter, Secure communication with a publicly known key, Acta Physica Polonica A 101, 357–368 (2002) [357/522 citations]