Outlook on Quantum Physics

Valerio Scarani

This text is an introduction to an operational outlook on Bell inequalities, which has been very fruitful in the past few years. It has lead to the recognition that Bell tests have their own place in applied quantum technologies, because they quantify non-classicality in a device-independent way, that is, without any need to describe the degrees of freedom under study and the measurements that are performed. At the more fundamental level, the same device-independent outlook has allowed the falsification of several other alternative models that could hope to reproduce the observed statistics while keeping some classical features that quantum theory denies; and it has shed new light on the long-standing quest for deriving quantum theory from physical principles.

Sungbin Lim, Roslan Abd-Shukor, K. H. Kwek

A. Isihara

A brief review of the developments of statistical physics, especially during the latter half of this century, is given, with focus on many body theory, followed by discussions of the future outlook or directions in several selected areas.

Wolfgang Yourgrau, Alwyn van der Merwe, Alfred Landé