Aleks Kissinger | Oxford MT 2024
- Radiohead, "Karma Police", Oxford, 1997.
Why is quantum theory so weird, and can we fix its bugs?
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Make even weirder ontology | "Shut up and calculate!" | |
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(e.g. Bohmian mechanics, many worlds, ...) | (Mermin, describing the Copenhagen interpretation) |
What if the bugs in quantum theory are actually features?
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quantum teleportation, communication, cryptography | quantum computation |
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1932 - quantum theory | 1992 - quantum teleportation |
We'll see that teleportation is miraculous...but it's also totally obvious when formulated the right way.
Q: Why did it take so long?
A: It took 60 years to ask the right question.
Q2: Why is this so hard?
A2: QT needs a better language.
Quantum picturalism $:=$ the use of diagrams to represent, reason about, and capture essential features and logic of interacting quantum processes.
:= the "assembly language of quantum computation"
INIT 5 CNOT 1 0 H 2 Z 3 H 0 H 1 CNOT 4 2 ... |
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Weeks 1-2 | Weeks 3-8 |
(E-)Book from Library | github.com/zxcalc/book |