Yep. I think I also read once or twice about a path integral approach, but, honestly, it is so rare that it doesn't seem to be fundamentally necessary. If one has a preference for this description, it could be used in principle.
Precisely what I should have emphasized when I first asked the...
Yes, but how would you know it is a monopole and how would you differentiate its effect from other physical phenomena that would change a magnet's direction (I guess it would be impossible to use a macroscopic magnet) or create a current spike?
As far as I'm aware of, a lot of models in particle physics and in the so called grand unified theories postulate the existence of magnetic monopoles.
When I was an undergraduate student I always thought that it was fascinating that so much could be built theoretically without the CONCRETE...
Yes, I know that, and, to my understanding, that is the reason why the article comparing the processing speed by using floating point operations are not entirely meaningful - to me it just means we are very good at building what we call classical computers if compared to our very limited...
So, as I'm about to consider this bunch of conversation dead I'll write the promised summary (that might not be so short, by the way) about this question - it will be more of a impressions thing, tell me if it is nonsense or not.
First, I'd like to introduce the "Five-and-a-half" definitions of...
It might not be clear, but quantum simulation is a very active field of research. In fact, people in the field are touching some very cool physics, even if it is just in simulation... Even for phenomena for which we do not have experimental implementations done. I could give some examples upon...
Actually when I typed "can't" i meant "can". Sorry about that.
But if there are no references, then I don't think I clearly know what you mean.
Even still, this post is giving me some good ideas, even if some people are getting my question differently from what I wanted to know (JK423 got what...
Could you give me a reference stating exactly this, because to me this seems to say that quantum computers can't always simulate classical computers efficiently, and I took that for granted.
I was recently reading about quantum computers because I once asked a teacher with more experience in the field "What was the origin of the quantum speedup" with his answer being quantum parallelism, which I kinda understood at that time, but I forgot about it. So, the other day I was thinking...
Thank you for your reply. Honestly I did not expect anyone to reply so quickly. I'm glad with it.
- I'd like to point out that I'm marginally aware of the fact that the sense of smell is "quite quantum in its mechanism", because of those news you told me to read - honestly I think it would be...
While I have to admit the question in its summarized version seems to be not very well defined (and naive, of an easy answer), so that I desire to at least make it sound less stupid. Or at least I hope. After reading all of this it might sound even worse though (no promises).I like reading about...
There were other stuff I could find, like...
http://arXiv.org/abs/0809.4422v1
http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1564v2
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3445
I'd also reccomend reading:
Understanding Deutsch’s probability in a deterministic multiverse
H. Greaves (2004)
Worlds in the Everett interpretation...