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Quantum Information for Particle Theorists

Quantum Physics 2021-01-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Lectures given at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI 2020), 1-26 June 2020. The topics covered include quantum circuits, entanglement, quantum teleportation, Bell inequalities, quantum entropy and decoherence, classical versus quantum measurement, the area law for entanglement entropy in quantum field theory, and simulating quantum field theory on a quantum computer. Along the way we confront the fundamental sloppiness of how we all learned (and some of us taught) quantum mechanics in college. Links to a Python notebook and Mathematica notebooks will allow the reader to reproduce and extend the calculations, as well as perform five experiments on a quantum simulator.

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@article{arxiv.2010.02931,
  title  = {Quantum Information for Particle Theorists},
  author = {Joseph D. Lykken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02931},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

55 pages, 15 figures

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