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Foundational investigations in quantum mechanics, both experimental and theoretical, gave birth to the field of quantum information science. Nevertheless, the foundations of quantum mechanics themselves remain hotly debated in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Maximilian Schlosshauer , Johannes Kofler , Anton Zeilinger

More than a speculative technology, quantum computing seems to challenge our most basic intuitions about how the physical world should behave. In this thesis I show that, while some intuitions from classical computer science must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Aaronson

One can view quantum mechanics as a generalization of classical probability theory that provides for pairwise interference among alternatives. Adopting this perspective, we ``quantize'' the classical random walk by finding, subject to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Xavier Martin , Denjoe O'Connor , R. D. Sorkin

Relativistic quantum mechanics can be considered to have begun with a search for wave equations corresponding to each intrinsic spin. However, relativistic quantum physics differs fundamentally from the non-relativistic wave mechanics. It…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Urjit A. Yajnik

Quantum Darwinism extends the traditional formalism of decoherence to explain the emergence of classicality in a quantum universe. A classical description emerges when the environment tends to redundantly acquire information about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Graeme Pleasance , Barry M. Garraway

Although classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are separate disciplines, we live in a world where Planck's constant \hbar>0, meaning that the classical and quantum world views must actually {\it coexist}. Traditionally, canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 John R. Klauder

Despite the unparalleled accuracy of quantum-theoretical predictions across an enormous range of phenomena, the theory's foundations are still in doubt. The theory deviates radically from classical physics, predicts counterintuitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson

Document ranking based on probabilistic evaluations of relevance is known to exhibit non-classical correlations, which may be explained by admitting a complex structure of the event space, namely, by assuming the events to emerge from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Roman Zapatrin

The role of quantum information is discussed in the framework of Quantum Concept of Consciousness (QCC), based on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (Everett interpretation). Within QCC the phenomenon of super-intuition is…

General Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Michael B. Mensky

Classical limits of quantum systems are shown to lead to different conceptions of spaces different from the classical one underlying the process of quantization of such systems. The accent is put in situations where traces of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Thierry Paul

Quantum machine learning (QML) sits at the intersection of quantum computing and classical machine learning, offering the prospect of new computational paradigms and advantages for processing complex data. This chapter introduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Lirandë Pira , Patrick Rebentrost

An assessment is given as to the extent to which pure unitary evolution, as distinct from environmental decohering interaction, can provide the transition necessary for an observer to interpret perceived quantum dynamics as classical. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 John S. Briggs

Quantum mechanics, one of the most successful theories in the history of science, was created to account for physical systems not describable by classical physics. Though it is consistent with all experiments conducted thus far, many of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Gary Oas , J. Acacio de Barros

Following the emergence of quantum computing, the subsequent quantum revolution will be that of interconnecting individual quantum computers at global level. In the same way that classical computers only realised their full potential with…

In contrast with software-generated randomness (called pseudo-randomness), quantum randomness is provable incomputable, i.e.\ it is not exactly reproducible by any algorithm. We provide experimental evidence of incomputability --- an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-09 Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Monica Dumitrescu , Karl Svozil

Relational quantum mechanics (RQM) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the idea that quantum states describe not an absolute property of a system but rather a relationship between systems. In this article, we observe that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Emily Adlam , Carlo Rovelli

Quantum coherence is a fundamental property of quantum systems, separating quantum from classical physics. Recently, there has been significant interest in the characterization of quantum coherence as a resource, investigating how coherence…

The classical PCP theorem is arguably the most important achievement of classical complexity theory in the past quarter century. In recent years, researchers in quantum computational complexity have tried to identify approaches and develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Thomas Vidick

All natural things process and transform information. They receive environmental information as input, and transform it into appropriate output responses. Much of science is dedicated to building models of such systems -- algorithmic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Jayne Thompson , Andrew J. P. Garner , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu

A central feature of quantum mechanics is the non-commutativity of operators used to describe physical observables. In this article, we present a critical analysis on the role of non-commutativity in quantum theory, focusing on its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Luca Curcuraci