Posted in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0, Weakly Abstract on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sorry everyone, I dropped the ball and didn’t manage to get out the Weakly Abstract on time this week. My excuse is kinda lame, yesterday I was giving a talk at the Quantum Information Processing Spring School and with one thing and another I didn’t get time to crank out a blog post. What’s doubly [...]
Posted in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0, Weakly Abstract on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week’s Weakly Abstract is going to be highly controversial. You see, over the last month or so that I’ve been doing this I’ve followed a pretty tried-and-true pattern of picking either the most, or second most, scited paper on SciRate from any given week.
This week I’m going to dip waaayyyy down into the [...]
Posted in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0, Weakly Abstract on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Checking out SciRate there’s been a fair bit of good quant-ph action over the last week. For instance you might want to check out the following papers:
Guillaume Aubrun, A remark on the paper “Randomizing quantum states: Constructions and applications”. (10 scites)
Huw Price, Toy Models for Retrocausality. (7 scites)
Keisuke Fujii, Katsuji Yamamoto, Fault-tolerant quantum computation in [...]
Posted in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0, Weakly Abstract on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Another Monday, another Weakly Abstract. This week’s Weakly Abstract is "Creation, manipulation, and detection of anyons in optical lattices" by Aguado et al:
Creation, manipulation, and detection of anyons in optical latticesAuthors: M. Aguado, G. K. Brennen, F. Verstraete, J. I. Cirac
Anyons are particle-like excitations of strongly correlated phases of matter with very exotic physical properties. [...]
Posted in Bristol, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0, Weakly Abstract on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s time for the second installment of the Weakly Abstract and I can already tell that this is going to be a hell of a job to get through every week. The last week saw some fantastic papers hit the quant-ph arXiv, here’s the Weakly Abstract shortlist:
Stephen Jordan and Edward Farhi, Perturbative Gadgets at Arbitrary [...]
Posted in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0, Weakly Abstract, blogging on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An idea that I’ve been toying with for a while now is to write a weekly post on my favourite quant-ph arXiv paper which has been released in the last week. I’ve decided after literally minutes of consultation with my office mates that this new regular post should be called "Weakly Abstract".
I expect that the [...]
