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    Bananaworld : quantum mechanics for primates / 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.

    By: Bub, Jeffrey [author.]Contributor(s): Bub, Tanya [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198718536; 0198718535Other title: Banana worldSubject(s): Quantum theory | Quantum theoryDDC classification: 530.1/2 LOC classification: QC174.12 | .B83 2016Online resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
    Contents:
    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.
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    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.

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