Quantum Entanglement (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Quantum entanglement is a profound enigma. It's implications challenge our common sense of the material world we're familiar with. In this small but well written book, author Jed Brody explains what quantum entanglement is and outlines this explanation with experiments that reveal how it emerges. He is very clear on what we know and what remains a mystery. I found this an excellent book on the subject and recommend it for anyone who wants a good concise outline of what quantum entanglement is all about.

The author made a good attempt to present a broad range of the historical background and current theories in the physics community. If anything, he may be guilty of trying to cover too much in one book. I still recommend it for amateur physicists.

Contrary to my earlier communication, I received this order. It is an excellent book, accessible to non-physicists. Thanks

This book is an ideal introduction to the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. I was looking for a book that was both simple and precise, explaining this phenomenon and its implications for the concepts of locality and causality. This book met all my expectations perfectly. Before reading it, I had read Franco Selleri's book "Die Debatte um die Quantentheorie" (The Debate on Quantum Theory, 1983), which is quite good but now too outdated and less precise than Jed Brody's. Seeking a more modern book, I first read George Musser's "Spooky Action at a Distance", but I found it too vague. The problem with many writings by science journalists is that they seem to think the reader is afraid of scientific/technical explanations and therefore describe things in a roundabout way. One constantly has to decipher what Musser is trying to convey to truly understand his point. Without this major and constant issue, Musser's book would be interesting. I also read Steven Weinberg's Lectures on Quantum Mechanics (2012), which dedicates a chapter to entanglement. However, unlike Weinberg's other books, which are often my go-to books when I want to really learn the details and understand a subject, I found this one too dry. Amongst the books above, the one of Brody is undoubtedly the best choice for an introduction to the subject, and I highly recommend it.

Great, lucid writing and solid nonmathematical overview to the topic.

I appreciated the author's effort to make the essential aspects of entanglement as simple to grasp as possible. However, the author's attempt to provide an overview of various interpretations of entanglement was very limited and incomplete. Finally, the author's explanation of the Twin Paradox of Special Relativity, based on accelerations, was just completely wrong. The true explanation is based on the differences in the paths traveled in Minkowski spacetime geometry, which the author probably just did not want to get into since the topic is too advanced for this book's purpose. It would have been better to not discuss the Twin Paradox at all than to give a false explanation of it. Instead of this book, I would recommend Quantum Chance by Nicolas Gisin, which provides a very understandable and basic overview of entanglement, nonlocality, and quantum randomness.

First of all, the book makes assertions about outcomes of experiments without comprehensively documenting the experiments. Secondly the results are over simplified. Third the author starts a blizzard of misdirected metaphors instead of completing any one. Fourth there is no effort to establish what physical domain is covered. Are they implying all of physics is described by an unspecified laboratory laser setup? These are exactly the issues that have dogged Bell Inequality experiments making them revise and revise again. Quantum Entanglement is not understood while the interpretation of Bell Inequalities remain controversial.

This is a fascinating subject that the author makes boring. He does not address the experiments that led to coming up with the concept of quantum entanglement. Not sure who it was written for. It is not appropriate for a general audience or physicists.