Bub, Jeffrey,
Bananaworld : quantum mechanics for primates / Banana world Jeffrey Bub, Distinguished University Professor, Philosophy Department, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland. College Park, USA ; illustrations by Tanya Bub, with a bow to John Tenniel. - First edition. - xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nobody understands quantum mechanics -- Qubits -- Bananaworld -- Really random -- The big picture -- Quantum magic -- Quantum secrets -- Quantum feats -- Why the quantum? -- Making sense of it all -- Supplement: Some mathematical machinery. Dirac's ingenious idea ; The Pauli operators ; The Born rule ; Noncommutativity and uncertainty ; Entanglement ; Quantum dynamics ; Relative phase ; Informationally complete observables ; The biorthogonal decomposition theorem ; States and operators as matrices ; Mixed states.
9780198718536 0198718535
2015944880
Quantum theory.
Quantum theory.
QC174.12 / .B83 2016
530.1/2
Bananaworld : quantum mechanics for primates / Banana world Jeffrey Bub, Distinguished University Professor, Philosophy Department, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland. College Park, USA ; illustrations by Tanya Bub, with a bow to John Tenniel. - First edition. - xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nobody understands quantum mechanics -- Qubits -- Bananaworld -- Really random -- The big picture -- Quantum magic -- Quantum secrets -- Quantum feats -- Why the quantum? -- Making sense of it all -- Supplement: Some mathematical machinery. Dirac's ingenious idea ; The Pauli operators ; The Born rule ; Noncommutativity and uncertainty ; Entanglement ; Quantum dynamics ; Relative phase ; Informationally complete observables ; The biorthogonal decomposition theorem ; States and operators as matrices ; Mixed states.
9780198718536 0198718535
2015944880
Quantum theory.
Quantum theory.
QC174.12 / .B83 2016
530.1/2