Vlatko Vedral
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199215706
- eISBN:
- 9780191706783
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199215706.003.0014
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
This book has discussed the foundations of quantum information science as well as the relationship between physics and information theory in general. It has considered the quantum equivalents of the ...
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This book has discussed the foundations of quantum information science as well as the relationship between physics and information theory in general. It has considered the quantum equivalents of the Shannon coding and channel capacity theorems. The von Neumann entropy plays a role analogous to the Shannon entropy, and the Holevo bound is the analogue of Shannon's mutual information used to quantify the capacity of a classical channel. Quantum systems can process information more efficiently than classical systems in a number of different ways. Quantum teleportation and quantum dense coding can be performed using quantum entanglement. Entanglement is an excess of correlations that can exist in quantum physics and is impossible to reproduce classically (with what is termed “separable” states). The book has also demonstrated how to discriminate entangled from separable states using entanglement witnesses, as well as how to quantify entanglement, and looked at quantum computation and quantum algorithms.Less
This book has discussed the foundations of quantum information science as well as the relationship between physics and information theory in general. It has considered the quantum equivalents of the Shannon coding and channel capacity theorems. The von Neumann entropy plays a role analogous to the Shannon entropy, and the Holevo bound is the analogue of Shannon's mutual information used to quantify the capacity of a classical channel. Quantum systems can process information more efficiently than classical systems in a number of different ways. Quantum teleportation and quantum dense coding can be performed using quantum entanglement. Entanglement is an excess of correlations that can exist in quantum physics and is impossible to reproduce classically (with what is termed “separable” states). The book has also demonstrated how to discriminate entangled from separable states using entanglement witnesses, as well as how to quantify entanglement, and looked at quantum computation and quantum algorithms.
Christian Miniatura, Leong-Chuan Kwek, Martial Ducloy, Benoît Grémaud, Berthold-Georg Englert, Leticia Cugliandolo, Artur Ekert, and Kok Khoo Phua (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199603657
- eISBN:
- 9780191729515
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603657.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
In recent years, there has been much synergy between the exciting areas of quantum information science and ultracold atoms. This volume, as part of the proceedings for the XCI session of Les Houches ...
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In recent years, there has been much synergy between the exciting areas of quantum information science and ultracold atoms. This volume, as part of the proceedings for the XCI session of Les Houches School of Physics (held for the first time outside Europe in Singapore) brings together experts in both fields. The theme of the school focused on two principal topics: quantum information science and ultracold atomic physics. The topics ranged from Bose-Einstein condensates to degenerate Fermi gases to fundamental concepts in quantum information sciences, including some special topics on quantum Hall effects, quantum phase transition, interactions in quantum fluids, disorder and interference phenomenoma, trapped ions and atoms, and quantum optical devices.Less
In recent years, there has been much synergy between the exciting areas of quantum information science and ultracold atoms. This volume, as part of the proceedings for the XCI session of Les Houches School of Physics (held for the first time outside Europe in Singapore) brings together experts in both fields. The theme of the school focused on two principal topics: quantum information science and ultracold atomic physics. The topics ranged from Bose-Einstein condensates to degenerate Fermi gases to fundamental concepts in quantum information sciences, including some special topics on quantum Hall effects, quantum phase transition, interactions in quantum fluids, disorder and interference phenomenoma, trapped ions and atoms, and quantum optical devices.
François Laruelle
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231167246
- eISBN:
- 9780231538961
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231167246.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This book targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and explores the radical potential of Christ, whose “crossing” disrupts their circular ...
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This book targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and explores the radical potential of Christ, whose “crossing” disrupts their circular discourse. It is built upon the idea of “nonphilosophy,” or “nonstandard philosophy.” This is a way of thinking that goes past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations among religion, science, politics, and art. The book describes a Christ who is not the authoritative figure conjured by academic theology, the Apostles or the Catholic Church. Instead He is the embodiment of generic man, founder of a science of humans and the herald of a gnostic messianism that calls forth an immanent faith. The book inserts quantum science into religion and recasts the temporality of the cross, the entombment and the resurrection, arguing that it is God who is sacrificed on the cross so that equals in faith may be born. Positioning itself against orthodox religion and naive atheism alike, the book is a heretical experiment that ties religion tightly to the human experience and the lived world.Less
This book targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and explores the radical potential of Christ, whose “crossing” disrupts their circular discourse. It is built upon the idea of “nonphilosophy,” or “nonstandard philosophy.” This is a way of thinking that goes past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations among religion, science, politics, and art. The book describes a Christ who is not the authoritative figure conjured by academic theology, the Apostles or the Catholic Church. Instead He is the embodiment of generic man, founder of a science of humans and the herald of a gnostic messianism that calls forth an immanent faith. The book inserts quantum science into religion and recasts the temporality of the cross, the entombment and the resurrection, arguing that it is God who is sacrificed on the cross so that equals in faith may be born. Positioning itself against orthodox religion and naive atheism alike, the book is a heretical experiment that ties religion tightly to the human experience and the lived world.
Christopher C. Gerry and Kimberley M. Bruno
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199666560
- eISBN:
- 9780191748646
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199666560.003.0006
- Subject:
- Physics, Atomic, Laser, and Optical Physics
This chapter discusses quantum information science (QIS), quantum key distribution (QKD), and quantum teleportation. The new field of QIS encompasses several overlapping subdisciplines: quantum ...
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This chapter discusses quantum information science (QIS), quantum key distribution (QKD), and quantum teleportation. The new field of QIS encompasses several overlapping subdisciplines: quantum computing, quantum key distribution (also known as quantum cryptography), and quantum metrology (the measurement of small parameters and weak forces with ultra-high precision). In QIS, bits of information are encoded in quantum states, which themselves can be in superposition states and/or entanglement states. Generically, the 0 and 1 quantum bits are represented as qubits (quantum bits). QKD, or quantum cryptography, is a completely secure method of secret communication, and will remain so even if a quantum computer becomes available. Quantum teleportation is one of the more exotic features to have emerged from the field of QIS. It refers to the ability to transfer an unknown quantum state from one location to another, possibly very distant, location by using quantum entanglement.Less
This chapter discusses quantum information science (QIS), quantum key distribution (QKD), and quantum teleportation. The new field of QIS encompasses several overlapping subdisciplines: quantum computing, quantum key distribution (also known as quantum cryptography), and quantum metrology (the measurement of small parameters and weak forces with ultra-high precision). In QIS, bits of information are encoded in quantum states, which themselves can be in superposition states and/or entanglement states. Generically, the 0 and 1 quantum bits are represented as qubits (quantum bits). QKD, or quantum cryptography, is a completely secure method of secret communication, and will remain so even if a quantum computer becomes available. Quantum teleportation is one of the more exotic features to have emerged from the field of QIS. It refers to the ability to transfer an unknown quantum state from one location to another, possibly very distant, location by using quantum entanglement.
Victor Galitski, Boris Karnakov, and Vladimir Kogan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- December 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199232710
- eISBN:
- 9780191774973
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232710.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Atomic, Laser, and Optical Physics
A series of seminal technological revolutions has led to a new generation of electronic devices miniaturized to such tiny scales that the strange laws of quantum physics come into play. There is no ...
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A series of seminal technological revolutions has led to a new generation of electronic devices miniaturized to such tiny scales that the strange laws of quantum physics come into play. There is no doubt that, unlike scientists and engineers of the past, technology leaders of the future will have to rely on quantum mechanics in their everyday work. This makes teaching and learning the subject of paramount importance for further progress. Mastering quantum physics is a very non-trivial task and its deep understanding can only be achieved through working out real-life problems and examples. It is notoriously difficult to come up with new quantum-mechanical problems that would be solvable with a pencil and paper, and within a finite amount of time. This book presents some 700+ original problems in quantum mechanics together with detailed solutions, covering nearly 1,000 pages on all aspects of quantum science.Less
A series of seminal technological revolutions has led to a new generation of electronic devices miniaturized to such tiny scales that the strange laws of quantum physics come into play. There is no doubt that, unlike scientists and engineers of the past, technology leaders of the future will have to rely on quantum mechanics in their everyday work. This makes teaching and learning the subject of paramount importance for further progress. Mastering quantum physics is a very non-trivial task and its deep understanding can only be achieved through working out real-life problems and examples. It is notoriously difficult to come up with new quantum-mechanical problems that would be solvable with a pencil and paper, and within a finite amount of time. This book presents some 700+ original problems in quantum mechanics together with detailed solutions, covering nearly 1,000 pages on all aspects of quantum science.
François Laruelle
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231167246
- eISBN:
- 9780231538961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231167246.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter focuses on christic science and its occasions. The Greek philosophy that served as a milieu for the reception for the christic message, the Logos, is a representational form of thought ...
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This chapter focuses on christic science and its occasions. The Greek philosophy that served as a milieu for the reception for the christic message, the Logos, is a representational form of thought that applies to almost all of its concepts, including those of theology. To think an event such as the messianic subject, other means and forces of production are needed. Idempotence means that the messianic lived is constant, whatever term may be adjoined to it as Other, since the term to which it is adjoined or added falls precisely under that invariant, to which it contributes only a complement. The chapter first considers the gnostic fusion of quantum science and the subject before discussing the destruction of the circle of transcendental illusion, the generic sciences and the hermeneutic occasion, and the traditional Christ and the Christ-subject. It suggests that there is no Christian science except in a religious or ideological sense, no more than there is a proletarian or Jewish science in the sense in which those words have been used in recent history.Less
This chapter focuses on christic science and its occasions. The Greek philosophy that served as a milieu for the reception for the christic message, the Logos, is a representational form of thought that applies to almost all of its concepts, including those of theology. To think an event such as the messianic subject, other means and forces of production are needed. Idempotence means that the messianic lived is constant, whatever term may be adjoined to it as Other, since the term to which it is adjoined or added falls precisely under that invariant, to which it contributes only a complement. The chapter first considers the gnostic fusion of quantum science and the subject before discussing the destruction of the circle of transcendental illusion, the generic sciences and the hermeneutic occasion, and the traditional Christ and the Christ-subject. It suggests that there is no Christian science except in a religious or ideological sense, no more than there is a proletarian or Jewish science in the sense in which those words have been used in recent history.
