Guest post by Abhishek Anand and Noah Miller from the physics and computation seminar. In 2013, Harlow and Hayden drew an unexpected connection between theoretical computer science and theoretical physics as they proposed a potential resolution to the famous black hole Firewall paradox using computational complexity arguments. This blog post attempts to lay out the … Continue reading Black hole paradoxes: A conservative yet radical journey
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Efficient preparation of thermal states of quantum systems: natural or artificial
Cross-posted from https://wsmoses.com/blog/2018/12/18/boaz/Lecturer: Aram HarrowScribes: Sinho Chewi, William S. Moses, Tasha Schoenstein, Ary SwaminathanNovember 9, 2018OutlineSampling from thermal states was one of the first and (initially) most important uses of computers. In this blog post, we will discuss both classical and quantum Gibbs distributions, also known as thermal equilibrium states. We will then discuss Markov chains … Continue reading Efficient preparation of thermal states of quantum systems: natural or artificial
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