Fwd: Guarding the Wall: tunnels, bridges and tendrils

[bandwraith at aol.com]

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-----Original Message-----
From: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:14 am
Subject: Re: Guarding the Wall: tunnels, bridges and tendrils


Thank you, thank you, P. Will do. Quick comment on the Quantum Bio. article we are now panning. On first scanning, they do seem to be using "The Cat," as a foil, to some extent.  



-----Original Message-----
From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 11:23 pm
Subject: Re: Guarding the Wall: tunnels, bridges and tendrils


Bandwraith (possibly et al.), 


Have a look at the paper below. It's free on arxiv. There's an excellent non-technical intro to quantum mechanics itself, in terms of its foundational postulates; the mathematical machinery necessary is introduced alongside.


http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0305045

Quantum Computation explained to my Mother
Pablo Arrighi
(Submitted on 8 May 2003)
There are many falsely intuitive introductions to quantum theory and quantum computation in a handwave. There are also numerous documents which teach those subjects in a mathematically sound manner. To my knowledge this paper is the shortest of the latter category. The aim is to deliver a short yet rigorous and self-contained introduction to Quantum Computation, whilst assuming the reader has no prior knowledge of anything but the fundamental operations on real numbers. Successively I introduce complex matrices; the postulates of quantum theory and the simplest quantum algorithm. The document originates from a fifty minutes talk addressed to a non-specialist audience, in which I sought to take the shortest mathematical path that proves a quantum algorithm right.






P.




On 25 April 2013 22:03, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:

Thank you for the Review Article (not attached here)- very approachable and interesting. Next I'm going to try this:
 
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.0683.pdf
 
Which was referenced in the Wikipedia article on Quantum Biology. Wish me luck.








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