Manuel Gessner studied Physics at the University of Freiburg and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, then did his PhD in Freiburg while part of his research was carried out during a stay at the University of California, Berkeley. He is now a post-doctoral researcher and Humboldt fellow at LENS in Florence.

• Introduction.- Background.- Local Detection of Correlations.- From Local Operations to Collective Dephasing: Behavior of Correlations.- Quantum Phase Transition in a Family of Quantum Magnets.- Multidimensional Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Controllable Quantum Systems.- Open Quantum Systems of Identical Particles.- Summary and Conclusions.

Manuel Gessner studied Physics at the University of Freiburg and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, then did his PhD in Freiburg while part of his research was carried out during a stay at the University of California, Berkeley. He is now a post-doctoral researcher and Humboldt fellow at LENS in Florence.

• Introduction.- Background.- Local Detection of Correlations.- From Local Operations to Collective Dephasing: Behavior of Correlations.- Quantum Phase Transition in a Family of Quantum Magnets.- Multidimensional Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Controllable Quantum Systems.- Open Quantum Systems of Identical Particles.- Summary and Conclusions.

Manuel Gessner studied Physics at the University of Freiburg and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, then did his PhD in Freiburg while part of his research was carried out during a stay at the University of California, Berkeley. He is now a post-doctoral researcher and Humboldt fellow at LENS in Florence.

• Introduction.- Background.- Local Detection of Correlations.- From Local Operations to Collective Dephasing: Behavior of Correlations.- Quantum Phase Transition in a Family of Quantum Magnets.- Multidimensional Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Controllable Quantum Systems.- Open Quantum Systems of Identical Particles.- Summary and Conclusions.