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The Wigner's Friend thought experiment stands as one of the most intellectually provocative and challenging conceptual puzzles in quantum mechanics. It compels us to confront profound questions concerning the fundamental nature of reality,…

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Deutsch, Feynman, and Manin viewed quantum computing as a kind of universal physical simulation procedure. Much of the writing about quantum Turing machines has shown how these machines can simulate an arbitrary unitary transformation on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Willem Fouché , Johannes Heidema , Glyn Jones , Petrus H. Potgieter

Quantum mechanics has led not only to new physical theories, but also a new understanding of information and computation. Quantum information began by yielding new methods for achieving classical tasks such as factoring and key distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aram W. Harrow

Quantum information science and technology is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field drawing researchers from science and engineering fields. Traditional instruction in quantum mechanics is insufficient to prepare students for research…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-02-23 Chandralekha Singh

As we begin to reach the limits of classical computing, quantum computing has emerged as a technology that has captured the imagination of the scientific world. While for many years, the ability to execute quantum algorithms was only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Bela Bauer , Sergey Bravyi , Mario Motta , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Quantum technology has the potential to revolutionize how we acquire and process experimental data to learn about the physical world. An experimental setup that transduces data from a physical system to a stable quantum memory, and…

What Quantum Brain Dynamics (QBD) considers is not just these other functions of the brain, this is because they can be well analyzed with the workings of classical mechanics (even though they still play host to a quantum description). It…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-08 Dozie Iwuh

Quantum physics, which describes the strange behavior of light and matter at the smallest scales, is one of the most successful descriptions of reality, yet it is notoriously inaccessible. Here we provide an approachable explanation of…

From the philosopher's perspective, the interest in quantum computation stems primarily from the way that it combines fundamental concepts from two distinct sciences: physics (especially quantum mechanics) and computer science, each long a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Michael E. Cuffaro

We conducted a literature review and expert interviews to determine the most common methods being used to teach quantum physics and quantum computing concepts to primary and secondary students. Based on the findings of this review, we…

Traditional cognitive science rests on a foundation of classical logic and probability theory. This foundation has been seriously challenged by several findings in experimental psychology on human decision making. Meanwhile, the formalism…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Diederik Aerts , Sandro Sozzo , Tomas Veloz

As quantum technologies transition from the research laboratory into commercial development, the opportunities for students to begin their careers in this new quantum industry are increasing. With these new career pathways, more and more…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-04-09 Victoria Borish , H. J. Lewandowski

We present a quantum algorithm which allows to simulate chaos-assisted tunneling in deep semiclassical regime on existing quantum computers. This opens new possibilities for investigation of macroscopic quantum tunneling and realization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Chepelianskii , D. L. Shepelyansky

These lecture notes were created for a graduate-level course on quantum simulation taught at Leibniz University Hannover in 2013. The first part of the course discusses various state of the art methods for the numerical description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Hendrik Weimer

The magnificence grandeur of quantum computing lies in the inherent nature of quantum particles to exhibit true parallelism, which can be realized by indubitably fascinating theories of quantum physics. The possibilities opened by quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Nivedita Dey , Mrityunjay Ghosh , Subhra Samir kundu , Amlan Chakrabarti

In this chapter, we argue for an epistemological shift from viewing coding and computational thinking as mastery over computational logic and symbolic forms, to viewing them as a more complex form of experience. Rather than viewing…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-01-30 Pratim Sengupta , Amanda Dickes , Amy Farris

Quantum information science and engineering (QISE) is a rapidly developing field that leverages the skills of experts from many disciplines to utilize the potential of quantum systems in a variety of applications. It requires talent from a…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-08-12 Peter Hu , Yangqiuting Li , Chandralekha Singh

Quantum computing harnesses quantum laws of nature to enable new types of algorithms, not efficiently possible on traditional computers, that may lead to breakthroughs in crucial areas like materials science and chemistry. There is rapidly…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-10-16 Mariia Mykhailova , Krysta M. Svore

In 1929 Szilard pointed out that the physics of the observer may play a role in the analysis of experiments. The same year, Bohr pointed out that complementarity appears to arise naturally in psychology where both the objects of perception…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 John Realpe-Gómez

Learning quantum mechanics is challenging, even for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Research-validated interactive tutorials that build on students' prior knowledge can be useful tools to enhance student learning. We have…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-06-30 Ryan Sayer , Alexandru Maries , Chandralekha Singh