ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Czirjak Attila <czirjak AT physx.u-szeged.hu>]

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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Y.S.Kim Network 
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robot AT physics.umd.edu
Subject: from Greenberger and Zeilinger on Petition to APS.

Dear Colleagues!

Subject: Petition to the APS to form a topical group on quantum
        information, concepts, and computing.

We are trying to start a topical group of the APS on quantum
information, concepts, and computation (QUICC).  Those of us who work on
quantum information, including cryptography, and classifying entangled
states in varying ways, and quantum computation, and all sorts of
fundamental problems in quantum theory- measurement theory, superposition,
Bell Theorems, etc., have no natural home in the APS.  They recognize only
such fields as Atomic, molecular, optical, high energy, condensed matter
physics, and a few others.  Many of these are relevant for some of our
interests, but none are devoted specifically to our primary interests.
This move is at least 20 years overdue.  Therefore we are  petitioning
the APS to start such a group.  We would appreciate the signatures of
everyone who works in these areas, and hope that everyone will publicize
this to their friends in the field.  The whole petition, which spells
out the complete rationale, can be read and signed at the website:
http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~greenbgr/
or  http://www.physics.umd.edu/robot.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Daniel Greenberger, Dept. of Physics, CCNY
Anton Zeilinger, Director, Inst. of Experimental Physics, Univ. of Vienna