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Some Upcoming Talks

By pontiff on February 4, 2009.

Some upcoming talks for those in Albuquerque or Ann Arbor (so many A's!):

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Do you know any of the goobers at Chalmers racing to build a quantum computer?

"The Race to Build a Quantum Computer" --- would that be a Red Queen's Race?

Because after all, our evolving knowledge of quantum error correction (in terms of both fundamental mathematics and practical design) competes with our evolving understanding (in terms of both fundamental mathematics and experimental physics validation) of quantum decoherence mechanisms.

Hey ... that means this particular Red Queen's race is *fixed* ... it's set-up so that the mathematicians win either way! As usual! :)

More seriously, insofar as the experimental and theoretical physics is concerned, the most extensive historical discussion I know is is Obach and Stapleton's humility-inducing review of our evolving understanding of electron spin decoherence during the years 1936-72.

The lesson-learned is that, historically, Nature has been considerably more ingenious in creating quantum decoherence mechanisms, than physicists have been in foreseeing them.

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@incollection{Orbach:72,Author = {R. Orbach and H. J. Stapleton}, Booktitle = {Electron Paramagnetic Resonance},Editor = {S. Geschwind}, Pages = {121--216},Publisher = {Plenum Press}, Title = {Electron Spin-Lattice Relaxation}, Year = 1972}

5 pm? It's not at the usual 3:30 pm time?

Will you be posting slides from these talks ?