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Relational time and intrinsic decoherence.
Speaker(s): Gerard Milburn
Abstract: One approach to the problem of time in canonical quantum gravity is to use correlations between a carefully chosen physical system and all other physical systems to provide a simulacrum of time. Time emerges as an ordering of correlated measurement results. In many ways this is an echo of an idea in... read more
Date: 29/09/2008 - 2:00 pm

Simulating unitary dynamical maps on a quantum computer.
Speaker(s): Gerard Milburn
Abstract: I will discuss an alternative approach to simulating Hamiltonian flows with a quantum computer. A Hamiltonian system is a continuous time dynamical system represented as a flow of points in phase space. An alternative dynamical system, first introduced by Poincare, is defined in terms of an area... read more
Date: 12/09/2007 - 2:00 pm
Series: Colloquium
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