Randomness in Quantum Mechanics: Philosophy, Physics and Technology

2016/11/07 by Manabendra Nath Bera, Antonio Acín, Marek Kuś +2 · 2 voices
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.hist-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1361-6633/aa8731

published as Rep. Prog. Phys. 80, 124001 (2017) · 27 pages. Comments welcome. Accepted for publication in Reports on Progress in Physics

arxiv published 2016/11/07 · arxiv created 2017/08/17 · arxiv updated 2017/11/28

Abstract

This progress report covers recent developments in the area of quantum randomness, which is an extraordinarily interdisciplinary area that belongs not only to physics, but also to philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and technology. For this reason the article contains three parts that will be essentially devoted to different aspects of quantum randomness, and even directed, although not restricted, to various audiences: a philosophical part, a physical part, and a technological part. For these reasons the article is written on an elementary level, combining very elementary and non-technical descriptions with a concise review of more advanced results. In this way readers of various provenances will be able to gain while reading the article.

Discussions

• This paper gives a broader overview. arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02176 [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
• How is this not the coolest shit ever? arxiv.org/abs/1611.021... [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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