What is the relationship between rational agency and the quantum? One way to approach this question is to focus on probabilism, the doctrine that rational beliefs ought to conform to the probability calculus. To the extent that the beliefs prescribed…

The Quantum Max Cut (QMC) problem has emerged as a test-problem for designing approximation algorithms for local Hamiltonian problems. In this talk we attack this problem using the algebraic structure of QMC; we will explore the relationship between…

The standard perspective on subsystems in quantum theory is a bottom-up, compositional one: one starts with individual "small" systems, viewed as primary, and composes them together to form larger systems. The top-down, decompositional perspective…

Proteins are the fundamental building block of life. They catalyse almost all chemical reactions in the body, drive the replication of genetic material, and are fundamental to our immune system, among many other important roles.

I flesh out the sense in which the informational approach to interpreting quantum mechanics, as defended by Pitowsky and Bub and lately by a number of other authors, is (neo-)Bohrian.

Grete Hermann was a philosopher-mathematician who productively and mutually beneficially interacted with the founders of quantum mechanics in the early period of that theory's elaboration.

Parametric amplifiers provide high amplification and quantum-limited noise performance, making them essential in many quantum measurement schemes.

The usual explanation of the quantum computing speedup is parallel calculation, inserting a superposition of all possible input values into the computation. The picture painted is that the machine performs a calculation for every input, perhaps in…

The observation of quantum phenomena often necessitates sufficiently pure states, a requirement that can be challenging to achieve.

Critical quantum sensing (CQS) is by now a well-established approach, based on the exploitation of quantum properties spontaneously developed in proximity of phase transitions.