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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
Nothing he says on this blog should be construed as having anything to do with his employer or his dog.
Category: Off The Deep End
A new entry in the best title every contest, arXiv:0907.4152:Born Again Authors: Don N. Page Abstract: A simple proof is given that the probabilities of observations in a large universe are not given directly by Born's rule as the expectation...
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Category: Best Title Ever
How did I miss this, an obvious entry into the best title ever contest:arXiv:0810.2587 A photonic cluster state machine gun Authors: Netanel H. Lindner, Terry RudolphQuick, duck for cover, Terry is shooting us with cluster states!...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:58 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Best Title Ever
A new entry in the best title every competition:arXiv:0810.0827: Sine function with a cosine attitude Authors: A. D. AlhaidariSomeday I promise that I will use the phrase "an exponential function with a logarithmic attitude."...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
An entry into the "best abstract ever" subcompetition of the "best title ever" competition, arXiv:0809.3979:Counterfactual Quantum Cryptography Authors: Tae-Gon Noh Abstract: The 'quantum counterfactuality' is one of the most striking counterintuitive effects predicted by quantum mechanics. This manuscript shows that...
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Category: Caltech
Someone at Caltech's PR office sure was having fun: Caltech Astronomers Describe the Bar Scene at the Beginning of the Universe PASADENA, Calif.--Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 7:59 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Best Title Ever
A new entry in the best title ever competition appeared last week on the arXiv:arXiv:0806.4874 Why devil plays dice? Authors: Andrzej Dragan Abstract: Principle of Relativity involving all, not only subluminal, inertial frames leads to the disturbance of causal laws...
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Category: Best Title Ever
A new entry in the best title ever competition: arXiv:0804.2162, "The secret world of shrimps: polarisation vision at its best", by Sonja Kleinlogel and Andrew G. White. Secret lives of shrimp? That sounds more like an expose on the secret...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:41 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Best Title Ever
Today, I looked on the arxiv and found arXiv:0804.0272:arXiv:0804.0272 Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions Authors: B. P. Lanyon, M. Barbieri, M. P. Almeida, T. Jennewein, T. C. Ralph, K. J. Resch, G. J. Pryde, J. L. O'Brien, A....
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Category: Best Title Ever
Another checkmark in front of the "antrhopic reasoning is whack": arXiv:0802.4121 Title: Ants are not Conscious Authors: Russell K. Standish Anthropic reasoning is a form of statistical reasoning based upon finding oneself a member of a particular reference class of...
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Category: Best Title Ever
One of the funniest abstracts to a paper on the arxiv in many moons appeared yesterday, authored by Carlos Mochon: arXiv:0711.4114 Title: Quantum weak coin flipping with arbitrarily small bias Authors: Carlos Mochon "God does not play dice. He flips...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:30 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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