Quantum Mechanics for Everyone is a six-week long MOOC that teaches the basic ideas of quantum mechanics with a method that requires no c...
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German physicist Werner Heisenberg once wrote, “What we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” This does not mean that quantum mechanics is unreal, but that what we assign to quantum particles is empirical reality. Though this may sound a little ir...
Quantum mechanics for everyone: Hands-on activities integrated with technology Quantum mechanics is frequently taught toward the end of the first year of physics if it is taught at all. Many physics instructors believe that quantum me... DA Zollman,NS Rebello,K Hogg - 《American Journal of Ph...
The mathematics needed for a full description of quantum mechanics is daunting, and this background is needed to design and build a quantum computer. But the mathematics needed to understand quantum computation and to start designing quantum circuits is much less: High school algebra is essentially...
The one thing everyone knows about quantum mechanics is its legendary weirdness, in which the basic tenets of the world it describes seem alien to the world we live in. Superposition, where things can be in two states simultaneously, a switch both on and off, acat both dead and alive. Or...
Then try this one on for size. Another interpretation of quantum mechanics is Hugh Everett’s many worlds hypothesis, which posits that everything that could happen has and does, in an infinite number of universes. Every time you make a decision, the universe splits in two, with you in on...
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This view was not shared by everyone. In 1967, Wigner proposed an argument, known as the Wigner’s Friend Paradox, which should show that “quantum mechanics cannot have unlimited validity”2. His idea was to consider the views of two different observers in an experiment analogous to the one...
Another essential career option in quantum is education. Educating others about quantum computing is critical for the field to move forward. It’s not just about consciousness raising though; it’s essential that, as a field, quantum has many people who are passionate about educating others about...