Related papers: The Berry Paradox
Opening Lecture at the Second Rencontres du Vietnam, October 21-28, 1995.
This is a survey of open problems in different parts of combinatorial and additive number theory. The paper is based on lectures at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in Barcelona on January 23 and January 25, 2008.
The aim of this short note is to clarify some of the claims made in the comparison made in [S. Lloyd, On the uncomputability of the spectral gap, arXiv:1602.05924] between our recent result [T.S. Cubitt, D. Perez-Garcia, M.M. Wolf,…
Lecture given at BW2003 Workshop "Mathematical, Theoretical and Phenomenological Challenges Beyond Standard Model" 29 August-02 September, 2003 Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia
This article is a summary of four introductory lectures on ``Neutrino Experiments,'' given at the 2006 TASI summer school. The purposes were to sketch out the present questions in neutrino physics and to discuss the experimental challenges…
This is the written version of my five lectures at the Banach Center mini-school on "Schubert Varieties", in Warsaw, May 18-22, 2003.
In joint work with Adam Black and Reuben Drogin, we develop a new approach to understanding the diffusive limit of the random Schrodinger equation based on ideas taken from random matrix theory. These lecture notes present the main ideas…
We show that the Berry force as computed by an approximate, mean-field electronic structure can be meaningful if properly interpreted. In particular, for a model Hamiltonian representing a molecular system with an even number of electrons…
This chapter is based on a talk given at the Science and Ultimate Reality meeting in March, 2002, in honour of John Archibald Wheeler. In it, I discuss some questions related to what can and cannot be said about the history of a quantum…
Introductory talk at the Session on Correlations and Fluctuations of the XXVII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics held in Delphi, Greece, from 6th till 11th of September 1998.
Talk presented at the 9th Max Born Symposion, Karpacz, September 1996
SETI is not a usual point of departure for environmental humanities. However, this paper argues that theories originating in this field have direct implications for how we think about viable inhabitation of the Earth. To demonstrate SETI's…
This is intended to be a serious paper, in spite of the title. The idea is that quantum mechanics is about probabilistic correlations, i.e., about the structure of information, since a theory of information is essentially a theory of…
Talk presented at the XXIX Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, March 12-19, 1994, Meribel
An elementary review of quantum cosmology. (Talk given at Texas/Pascos 1992 at Berkeley)
These are the transcriptions of "a talk describing the theoretical insights of those honored (and the one who wasn't) and how this has led to all the physics we have been doing over the last couple of decades." After prologue, we first deal…
The black hole information loss paradox has long been one of the most studied and fascinating aspects of black hole physics. In its latest incarnation, it takes the form of the firewall paradox. In this paper, we first give a conceptually…
The information loss paradox is usually stated as an incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics. However, the assumptions leading to the problem are often overlooked and, in fact, a careful inspection of the main…
Symmetry-breaking phase transitions are ubiquitous in condensed matter systems and in quantum field theories. There is also good reason to believe that they feature in the very early history of the Universe. At many such transitions…
The spontaneous baryogenesis scenario explains how a baryon asymmetry can develop while baryon violating interactions are still in thermal equilibrium. However, generation of the chemical potential from the derivative coupling is dubious…