Quantum Theory. Quantum Chaos. Quantum Supremacy
“Hidden beneath our everyday world — on the infinitesimal scale of atomic and subatomic particles — is a strange and elusive realm. It is a place where ghostly particles pop in and out of existence, swirling electrons occupy two positions at once, and objects possess dual natures — they can be both waves and particles simultaneously.” The most mysterious theory in all of science, the quantum theory is the most precisely tested and most successful theory in the history of science.
What the quantum mystery is? Proposed by Werner Heisenberg in 1925 and Erwin Schrodinger in 1926, quantum theory, was recognized from the start as an unexpectedly radical break from previous physics.
Quantum physics, or quantum mechanics, is physics at a microscopic scale. Quantum theory seeks to describe matter and energy at atomic and sub-atomic levels where classical physics does not always apply due to wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle.
Quantum chaos, or quantum chaology as it is better called, is the study of the relationship between chaos in the macroscopic or classical domain and the quantum domain. The implications of chaos in classical physics for quantum systems have received some intensely focused study, with questions raised about the actual existence of chaos in the quantum domain and the viability of the correspondence principle between classical and quantum mechanics to name the most provocative.
In October 2019 Google declared it had achieved “quantum supremacy” by eclipsing the performance of classical supercomputers. The tech group said its Sycamore quantum processor had, in 200 seconds, performed a task that would take the world’s best supercomputer 10,000 years to complete, although the magnitude of this claim is disputed by the IBM corporation.
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W h y Q u a n t u m
R e a l m ?
There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does
not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- Victor Hugo
If it is correct, it signifies the end of
physics as a science. - Albert
Einstein
Il n'y a pas de néant. Zéro n'existe pas. Tout est
quelque chose. Rien n'est rien.
Ludmila Morozova-Buss, April 24, 2020
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The most mysterious theory in all
of science, quantum theory,
fascinates me.
I have begun my studies towards a Doctorate in Quantum Computing at Capitol
Technology University, USA. I have been a doctoral researcher since January 2020;
but my resume is something less than a straight line. It includes an MS in
Mathematics and twenty years of professional experience in a number of science
and technology-related roles in many different cultures in Europe, Asia, and the
United States of America.
I am a Ukrainian native who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2013.
My character, beliefs, and professional experience have been shaped by many
diverse events in my life: “tornadoes" of activities, solitude, the heat of Tashkent,
the cold of Moscow; all have played a part in how I experience the world.
I stepped into the global streams of news & social media in search of my passion
and a positive future. My political and religious affiliation is not with any nation-
state or organization, but with humanity in general. My interests intersect in
science, business strategy, education, technology, entrepreneurship, free markets
and the rule of law. My passion lies in the possibilities existing at the vortex of
science, technology, and the human spirit.
For years, I have revelled in the extreme challenges of mathematical analysis. The
most mysterious theory in all of science, quantum theory, fascinates me.
I s t u d y a t t h e
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ABSTRA
CT
Skilled for success in the era of technological breakthroughs?
A word ‘unprecedented’ seems too weak to convey just how
much the dimensionless operational space of digital (r)evolution
requires instantaneous reaction. ´Quantum thinking´ notion
sparked my mind and here I am, `Back to School`. This time with
one of the world-of-science´s leading topic: the Quantum Realm.
A central topic of this presentation is the mystery of the
quantum universe. A fundamental and delicate question at the
heart of my work is: how to motivate my readers to rise above
the information noise, to discover scientific knowledge and stay
connected to the world of science.
I advocate a Systems Thinking approach in informing my readers,
followers, friends, business associates about digital
transformation, emerging technologies, cybersecurity and
science, including developments in the field of quantum science,
quantum technology and quantum devices, and with practical
applications arising from research in this multidisciplinary field.
Key words: see the words´ cloud image
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Let’s get started.
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. - Niels Bohr
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LINE OF REASONING
Three Axes of Study
The System of Systems
Heisenberg's Uncertainty
Principle.
Call to Action
Quantum Enigma
Narrative
Readings
Quantum Mechanics
Real-World Apps
Quantum Programming
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Quantum Theory. Quantum Chaos. Quantum Supremacy
“Hidden beneath our everyday world — on the infinitesimal scale of atomic and subatomic particles —
is a strange and elusive realm. It is a place where ghostly particles pop in and out of existence,
swirling electrons occupy two positions at once, and objects possess dual natures — they can be both
waves and particles simultaneously.” The most mysterious theory in all of science, the quantum theory
is the most precisely tested and most successful theory in the history of science.
What the quantum mystery is? Proposed by Werner Heisenberg in 1925 and Erwin Schrodinger in
1926, quantum theory, was recognized from the start as an unexpectedly radical break from previous
physics.
Quantum physics, or quantum mechanics, is physics at a microscopic scale. Quantum theory seeks to
describe matter and energy at atomic and sub-atomic levels where classical physics does not always
apply due to wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle.
Quantum chaos, or quantum chaology as it is better called, is the study of the relationship between
chaos in the macroscopic or classical domain and the quantum domain. The implications of chaos in
classical physics for quantum systems have received some intensely focused study, with questions
raised about the actual existence of chaos in the quantum domain and the viability of the
correspondence principle between classical and quantum mechanics to name the most provocative.
In October 2019 Google declared it had achieved “quantum supremacy” by eclipsing the performance
of classical supercomputers. The tech group said its Sycamore quantum processor had, in 200
seconds, performed a task that would take the world’s best supercomputer 10,000 years to complete,
although the magnitude of this claim is disputed by the IBM corporation.
Quantum Enigma. Narrative. Readings
Ludmila Morozova-Buss, April 24, 2020
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Quantum mechanics real-world applications
Presently, one of the most ambitious technological goals is the development of devices working
under the laws of quantum mechanics. Here are a few stunning real-world quantum mechanics
applications: ultra-precise clocks; uncrackable codes; improved microscopes; biological compasses;
semiconductor devices; super-powerful computers.
One prominent target is the quantum computer. All computing systems, including supercomputers,
the HPC - High-Performance Computing - systems, rely on a fundamental ability to store and
manipulate information. Modern computers manipulate individual bits, which store information as
binary 0 and 1 states. Quantum computers leverage quantum mechanical phenomena to manipulate
information. To do this, they rely on quantum bits, or qubits. Quantum computers, when built, might
stimulate the progress of new breakthroughs in science, societies and the outer space.
Quantum programming is the process of assembling sequences of instructions, called quantum
programs, that are capable of running on a quantum computer. Quantum programming languages
help express quantum algorithms using high-level constructs.
One of the first implemented quantum programming languages is the QCL - Quantum Computing
Language. QCL is a high level, architecture independent programming language for quantum
computers, with a syntax derived from classical procedural languages like C or Pascal.
Quantum Mechanics. Real-World Apps. Quantum Programming
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Quantum physics works and finally receives the attention
it deserves.
An open immeasurable non-linear System of Systems - the Quantum Realm, where Quantum Fields,
Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Engineering, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Intelligence,
Quantum Thinking, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Chaos phenomena are a few of many (to be
defined) interconnected elements of this universal system.
Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist, determined (1927) that our observations have an effect on
the behaviour of quanta and stated that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be
measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. Since quantum mechanics underlies almost all
modern technology, the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle turns up all over the place. It also plays a
more direct role in the quantum technologies of the 21st century, which are just being developed
now. In the regime of quantum experiments we are uncertain about the results of experiments
because the particle itself is uncertain. It has no position or speed until we measure it. Or so
Heisenberg thought, and most physicists still follow this line.
It is uncertain when the first true quantum computer will arrive. Here and now, we do not know if
quantum computers will be just a very specialised tool or a big revolution for humanity. We have no
idea where the limits of technologies are and there is only one way to find out: to step into the field of
the quantum applied science and research.
Call to Action: I am hoping to set the stage and get us all on the same page with terminology by
building a Quantum Computing Glossary.
The System of Systems. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
Call to Action
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Quantum Computing Glossary.
• Quantum: In physics, a quantum (plural quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity
(physical property) involved in an interaction.
• Quantum World(s): The quantum world is the world that's smaller than an atom. Things at this
scale don't behave the same way as objects on the scale that we can see.
• Quantum Realism: Quantum realism (QR) is the view that what quantum theory describes is real.
In physical realism, the physical world is real and the quantum world is imaginary, but in quantum
realism, quantum processing generates physical events as a virtual reality and the physical world
is just an interface.
• Quantum Theory: Quantum theory (otherwise known as quantum physics or quantum
mechanics) is one of the two main planks of modern physics, along with general relativity, and
between them the two theories claim to explain virtually everything about the universe. General
relativity gives us our picture of the very big (space-time and gravity), while quantum theory gives
us our picture of the very small (atoms and their constituents).
• Quantum Field Theory: Quantum Fields. Fields of Reality. Quantum theory tells us that in the
real world, everything is "field". When one wants to talk about the matter and its behaviour in the
world of the infinitely small particles, it addresses the quantum field theory. Quantum field theory
allows, understand particle physics.
A simplified taxonomy that demonstrates an
interconnectedness (systems thinking approach) of
the quantum theory and applied quantum science
& technology with the real world we all live in.
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• Quantum Computing: Quantum Computing is the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena such
as superposition and entanglement to perform computation.
• Qubit: In quantum computing, a #qubit (/ˈkjuːbɪt/) or quantum bit (sometimes qbit) is the basic unit
of quantum information—the quantum version of the classical binary bit physically realized with a
two-state device. A qubit is a two-state (or two-level) quantum-mechanical system, one of the
simplest quantum systems displaying the peculiarity of quantum mechanics.
• Quantum Programming: Quantum programming is the process of assembling sequences of
instructions, called quantum programs, that are capable of running on a quantum computer.
Quantum programming languages help express quantum algorithms using high-level constructs.
• Cirq: Cirq is an open-source framework for Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers.
Cirq was developed by the Google AI Quantum Team, and the public alpha was announced at the
International Workshop on Quantum Software and Quantum Machine Learning on July 18, 2018.
A demo by QC Ware showed an implementation of QAOA solving an example of the maximum cut
problem being solved on a Cirq simulator.
• Qiskit: Qiskit is an open-source framework for quantum computing. It provides tools for creating
and manipulating quantum programs and running them on prototype quantum devices on IBM Q
Experience or on simulators on a local computer.
• Quil: Quil is a quantum instruction set architecture that first introduced a shared quantum/classical
memory model. It was introduced by Robert Smith, Michael Curtis, and William Zeng in A Practical
Quantum Instruction Set Architecture.
A simplified taxonomy that demonstrates an
interconnectedness (systems thinking approach) of
the quantum theory and applied quantum science
& technology with the real world we all live in.
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Quantum Realm Keywords
A simplified taxonomy that demonstrates an interconnectedness (systems thinking approach) of the quantum
theory and applied quantum science & technology with the real world we all live in.
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Thank you
The mystery of the quantum universe keeps us learning. The road ahead has many obstacles.
A fundamental and delicate question at the heart of my work is: how to motivate my readers to
rise above the information noise, to discover scientific knowledge and stay connected to the world
of science.
A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE QUANTUM REALM
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