Completeness, Supervenience, and Ontology
... complete (as Laplace pointed out). But no one would suggest because of this that we think of the state at one moment as all that exists: indeed, it is the various different states at different times that the dynamical laws link to one another. To sum up, informational completeness implies a form of ...
... complete (as Laplace pointed out). But no one would suggest because of this that we think of the state at one moment as all that exists: indeed, it is the various different states at different times that the dynamical laws link to one another. To sum up, informational completeness implies a form of ...
The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural
... thing I was surprised at was that my old rationalist sentiments stood up; if anything, they have been reinforced by looking at this topic anew. I have long held a platonistic view of mathematics; I now hold a platonistic view of physics as well. In brief, the book is as follows. The first chapter in ...
... thing I was surprised at was that my old rationalist sentiments stood up; if anything, they have been reinforced by looking at this topic anew. I have long held a platonistic view of mathematics; I now hold a platonistic view of physics as well. In brief, the book is as follows. The first chapter in ...
MATHEMATICS OF TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING 1
... category theory is a good language for quantum physics.7 In quantum physics, we face the challenge that we cannot “see” what is happening. So we appeal to measurements and build our understanding from the responses to measuring devices. A quantum particle is really defined by how it interacts with o ...
... category theory is a good language for quantum physics.7 In quantum physics, we face the challenge that we cannot “see” what is happening. So we appeal to measurements and build our understanding from the responses to measuring devices. A quantum particle is really defined by how it interacts with o ...
A Matrix Realignment Method for Recognizing Entanglement
... Kai Chen, Ling-An Wu, Quantum Information and Computation, Vol.3, No.3 (2003) 193-202, quantph/0205017; Physics Letters A 306 (2002) 14-20, quant-ph/0208058; Phys. Rev. A 69, 022312 (2004), quant-ph/0306041 S. Albeverio, K. Chen, S.M. Fei, Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 062313, quant-ph/0312185. Note: It sh ...
... Kai Chen, Ling-An Wu, Quantum Information and Computation, Vol.3, No.3 (2003) 193-202, quantph/0205017; Physics Letters A 306 (2002) 14-20, quant-ph/0208058; Phys. Rev. A 69, 022312 (2004), quant-ph/0306041 S. Albeverio, K. Chen, S.M. Fei, Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 062313, quant-ph/0312185. Note: It sh ...
Quantum computation of scattering in scalar quantum field theories
... same thing can be done in quantum field theory, and this method underlies the lattice field theory calculations extensively used in supercomputer studies of quantum chromodynamics. To simulate a typical process at energy scale E, it is believed to suffice if one chooses a lattice spacing small compa ...
... same thing can be done in quantum field theory, and this method underlies the lattice field theory calculations extensively used in supercomputer studies of quantum chromodynamics. To simulate a typical process at energy scale E, it is believed to suffice if one chooses a lattice spacing small compa ...
Nature’s Queer Performativity “O 25
... there are objective limitations upon human action, objective standards of right and wrong’”.11 So according to Jaffa, if homosexuality is not criminalized, the morality floor drops out: the illegality of homosexuality is the very foundation of morality. This (il)logic neatly coheres with the pervers ...
... there are objective limitations upon human action, objective standards of right and wrong’”.11 So according to Jaffa, if homosexuality is not criminalized, the morality floor drops out: the illegality of homosexuality is the very foundation of morality. This (il)logic neatly coheres with the pervers ...
An information-theoretic perspective on the foundations of
... because they mostly are based on relatively simple mathematics, like Bell's theory. The fact that simple ideas (simple in terms of mathematical complexity) can still lead to such important discoveries in QM shows that we still understand very little of the quantum world. The study of correlations, w ...
... because they mostly are based on relatively simple mathematics, like Bell's theory. The fact that simple ideas (simple in terms of mathematical complexity) can still lead to such important discoveries in QM shows that we still understand very little of the quantum world. The study of correlations, w ...
Quantum Mechanics Introduction: Physics
... problems, that couldn't quite be explained away. In an ideal world, we would now explain these new experiments in detail. But unfortunately, that would take another whole paper or two, so we're just going to tell you the outcome. In 1905 Albert Einstein made a proposal, described below, which explai ...
... problems, that couldn't quite be explained away. In an ideal world, we would now explain these new experiments in detail. But unfortunately, that would take another whole paper or two, so we're just going to tell you the outcome. In 1905 Albert Einstein made a proposal, described below, which explai ...
Quantum scattering
... Therefore, the task of constructing the semiclassics of a scattering system is completed, if we can find a connection between the spectral density d(E) and the scattering matrix S . We will see that (35.12) provides the clue. Note that the right hand side of (35.12) has nearly the structure of (35.1 ...
... Therefore, the task of constructing the semiclassics of a scattering system is completed, if we can find a connection between the spectral density d(E) and the scattering matrix S . We will see that (35.12) provides the clue. Note that the right hand side of (35.12) has nearly the structure of (35.1 ...
Chapter 38 - Quantum scattering
... Therefore, the task of constructing the semiclassics of a scattering system is completed, if we can find a connection between the spectral density d(E) and the scattering matrix S . We will see that (39.12) provides the clue. Note that the right hand side of (39.12) has nearly the structure of (39.1 ...
... Therefore, the task of constructing the semiclassics of a scattering system is completed, if we can find a connection between the spectral density d(E) and the scattering matrix S . We will see that (39.12) provides the clue. Note that the right hand side of (39.12) has nearly the structure of (39.1 ...
The Quantum Hall Effect: Novel Excitations and Broken Symmetries
... about 10−10 and an absolute accuracy of about 10−8 (both being limited by our ability to do resistance metrology). In 1982, Tsui, Störmer and Gossard discovered that in certain devices with reduced (but still non-zero) disorder, the quantum number ν could take on rational fractional values. This so ...
... about 10−10 and an absolute accuracy of about 10−8 (both being limited by our ability to do resistance metrology). In 1982, Tsui, Störmer and Gossard discovered that in certain devices with reduced (but still non-zero) disorder, the quantum number ν could take on rational fractional values. This so ...
1905, ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE ROOTS OF THE
... etc.) moving about according to definite laws of force, so that one could form a mental picture in space and time of the whole scheme. This led to a physics whose aim was to make assumptions about the mechanism and forces connecting these observable objects, to account for their behaviour in the sim ...
... etc.) moving about according to definite laws of force, so that one could form a mental picture in space and time of the whole scheme. This led to a physics whose aim was to make assumptions about the mechanism and forces connecting these observable objects, to account for their behaviour in the sim ...
Experiments with Entangled Photons Bell Inequalities, Non-local Games and Bound Entanglement
... the concepts on which classical physics is based. For instance, it permits persistent correlations between classically separated systems, that are termed as entanglement. To circumvent these problems and explain entanglement, hidden variables theories–based on undiscovered parameters–have been devis ...
... the concepts on which classical physics is based. For instance, it permits persistent correlations between classically separated systems, that are termed as entanglement. To circumvent these problems and explain entanglement, hidden variables theories–based on undiscovered parameters–have been devis ...
Machine invention of quantum computing circuits by means
... genetic programming systems in that it uses the Push programming language as the formalism within which evolving programs are expressed. Most other systems, by contrast, use Lisp-like expression trees, although a variety of representations (including both high-level languages and machine code) have ...
... genetic programming systems in that it uses the Push programming language as the formalism within which evolving programs are expressed. Most other systems, by contrast, use Lisp-like expression trees, although a variety of representations (including both high-level languages and machine code) have ...
