Bananaworld : quantum mechanics for primates
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Bananaworld : quantum mechanics for primates
Oxford University Press, 2016
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What on earth do bananas have to do with quantum mechanics?
From a modern perspective, quantum mechanics is about strangely counterintuitive correlations between separated systems, which can be exploited in feats like quantum teleportation, unbreakable cryptographic schemes, and computers with enormously enhanced computing power. Schro?dinger coined the term "entanglement" to describe these bizarre correlations. Bananaworld - an imaginary island with "entangled" bananas - brings to life the fascinating discoveries of the new field of quantum information
without the mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics. The connection with quantum correlations is fully explained in sections written for the non-physicist reader with a serious interest in understanding the mysteries of the quantum world. The result is a subversive but entertaining book that is
accessible and interesting to a wide range of readers, with the novel thesis that quantum mechanics is about the structure of information. What we have discovered is that the possibilities for representing, manipulating, and communicating information are very different than we thought.
Table of Contents
- 1. Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
- 2. Qubits
- 3. Bananaworld
- 4. Really Random
- 5. Quantum Magic
- 6. Quantum Secrets
- 7. Quantum Feats
- 8. The Big Picture
- 9. Why the Quantum?
- 10. Making Sense of It All
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