Recent content by Mukilab

Thanks, but if virtual particles don't 'exist' or they are not necessary in many quantum theories, why do they exist? Please understand that I do not understand the large majority of scientific jargon on this thread, would it be possible for you to try to explain this as if to someone that is...

Sorry it was hard to think of a good title. Essentially, why do only virtual photons carry the electromagnetic force? What stops 'normal' photons from carrying the EM force? Is it the fact that we can detect them? What decides whether a photon will be virtual and hence carry the EM force, or...

I was recently told virtual particles don't cause decoherence. Why not? Do they just never interact with their environment (apart from transferring energy/force) so they can never collapse a wavefunction?

If it is coding - then surely different coding may be used in different situations, creating an event where one research group codes the state 010 as the binary digits representing 7 whilst another group codes the same state but represents it as a 4. Since coding is arbitrary, how can we know...

Sorry for my late reply, I've been very busy recently. So since a probability amplitude is a collection of quantum states, then surely the probability amplitude denoting the state (101) is the same as the one denoting (110) since both states have two electrons with spin up and one electron...

Please could you provide a link or explain how decoherence explains we will never see a superposition? Thanks, will look this up Thank you for that fantastic explanation. As to your last paragraph, I'm a bit confused between the difference between your interpretation and the standard...

I am very sorry. Please could you explain how a quantum register converts whatever there is to convert into a binary number? Disregard amplitudes, how do you get from a series of particles to a binary number? Do you literally have to measure every single one and see whether it has spin up or...

I'm sorry, I don't understand. In a classical system you have two possible results i.e. as you said it may be (+) volts for 1, and (-) volts for 0. However these are the final results. For qubits, although yes there are 1s and 0s, the answers are the amplitudes, which are 2^n many, rather...

One more question, How can we 'create' superposition. Surely this is an oxymoron? Superposition is caused by a lack of interference with particles, so how, by interfering with particles, can we force them into superposition?

Thank you, so what would you say was the most interpretation? Or is it all just speculation, with there being no 'true' explanation.

Could someone please explain why superpositions collapse when we observe particles? Surely if it is because we have interacted with the particle, then any interaction would decohere a particle, i.e. why would the magnetic fields in two electrodes (which are containing a particle) not collapsing...

Sorry could you explain this? I believed that you get results through interference, i.e. constructive interference will heighten the probability of a certain amplitude being found. I thought that 'amplitude' denotes on of the possible states of the entire qubit system, and is a complex...

Thank you. So how would one convert these amplitudes, which are complex numbers, into integers (such as the test that found that 3*5=15 with a high probability)

I understand how superposition is used now however I've stumbled on a new thing which I am confused about (and which lectures don't seem to address). If you are using an algorithm to send waves such that you create constructive and destructive amplitudes among the qubits to get a high chance...

One of the main aims is to be able to solve the RSA-security which is the predominant encryption on the internet. It multiplies two prime numbers to get a 300 digit number. A supercomputer would take years-decades to solve this kind of thing since computer power expands exponentially, but since...