Investigating the learning potential of the Second Quantum Revolution: development of an approach for secondary school students

In recent years we have witnessed important changes: the Second Quantum Revolution is in the spotlight of many countries, and it is creating a new generation of technologies. To unlock the potential of the Second Quantum Revolution, several countries have launched strategic plans and research programs that finance and set the pace of research and development of these new technologies (like the Quantum Flagship, the National Quantum Initiative Act and so on). The increasing pace of technological changes is also challenging science education and institutional systems, requiring them to help to prepare new generations of experts. This work is placed within physics education research and contributes to the challenge by developing an approach and a course about the Second Quantum Revolution. The aims are to promote quantum literacy and, in particular, to value from a cultural and educational perspective the Second Revolution. The dissertation is articulated in two parts. In the first, we unpack the Second Quantum Revolution from a cultural perspective and shed light on the main revolutionary aspects that are elevated to the rank of principles implemented in the design of a course for secondary school students, prospective and in-service teachers. The design process and the educational reconstruction of the activities are presented as well as the results of a pilot study conducted to investigate the impact of the approach on students' understanding and to gather feedback to refine and improve the instructional materials. The second part consists of the exploration of the Second Quantum Revolution as a context to introduce some basic concepts of quantum physics. We present the results of an implementation with secondary school students to investigate if and to what extent external representations could play any role to promote students’ understanding and acceptance of quantum physics as a personal reliable description of the world

Quantum Algorithms, Paraconsistent Computation And Deutsch's Problem

We present the new model of paraconsistent Turing machines and revise the models of quantum Turing machines and quantum circuits, stressing the concepts of entangled states and quantum parallelism which are important features for efficient quantum algorithms. We revise a quantum circuit that solves the Deutsch's problem, and then provide another solution to Deutsch's problem by means of paraconsistent Turing machines. This raises some interesting questions, and we close the paper by discussing some relationships between paraconsistent Turing machines and quantum Turing machines. 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Unconventional Models Of Computation Through Non-standard Logic Circuits

The classical (boolean) circuit model of computation is generalized via polynomial ring calculus, an algebraic proof method adequate to non-standard logics (namely, to all truth-functional propcsitional logics and to some non-truth-functional logics). Such generalization allows us to define models of computation based on non-standard logics in a natural way by using 'hidden variables' in the constitution of the model. Paraconsistent circuits for the paraconsistent logic mbC (and for some extensions) are defined as an example of such models. Some potentialities are explored with respect to computability and computational complexity. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.4618 LNCS2940Agudelo, J.C., Carnielli, W., Quantum algorithms, paraconsistent computation and Deutsch's problem (2005) Proceedings of the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1609-1628. , Prasad, B, ed, Pune, India, ppBoolos, G., Jeffrey, R., (1989) Computability and logic, , 3rd edn. Cambridge University Press, CambridgeRichard Büchi, J., Turing-machines and the Entscheidungsproblem (1962) Mathematische Annalen, 148, pp. 201-213Calabro, C., Turing Machine, RAM. , http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/classes/fa06/cse200/ln2.ps, vs, Machine vs. Circuits. Lecture notes, available atConiglio Carlos Caleiro, M.E., Carnielli, W., Marcos, J.: Two's company: the humbug of many logical values. In: Beziau, J.-Y. (ed.) Logica Universalis, pp. 169-189. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland (preprint available at) http://wslc.math.ist.utl.pt/ftp/pub/CaleiroC/05-CCCM-dyadic.pdfCarnielli, W.A.: Polynomial ring calculus for many-valued logics. In: Werner, B. (ed.) Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, pp. 20-25. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2005), (preprint available at CLE e-Prints 5(3), 2005), http://www.cle. unicamp.br/e-prints/vol_5,n_3,2005. htmlCarnielli, W.A., Coniglio, M.E., Marcos, J.: Logics of Formal Inconsistency. In: Gabbay, D., Guenthner, F. (eds.) Handbook of Philosophical Logic, 2nd edn. 14, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (2005), (in print, preprint available at CLE e-Prints 5(1), 2005), http ://www.cle.unicamp.br/e-prints/vol_5,n_1,2005.htmlChuang, I.L., Nielsen, M.A., (2000) Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, , Cambridge University Press, CambridgeClote, P., Kranakis, E., (2002) Boolean Functions and Computation Models, , Springer, HeidelbergCook, S.A., The complexity of theorem proving procedures (1971) Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 151-158. , ACM Press, New YorkCopeland, J., Hypercomputation (2002) Minds and machines, 12, pp. 461-502Davis, M., The myth of hypercomputation (2004) Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker, pp. 195-212. , Teuscher, C, ed, Springer, HeidelbergDavis, M., Why there is no such discipline as hypercomputation (2004) Applied Mathematics and Computation, 178, pp. 4-7Genovese, M., Research on hidden variable theories: A review of recent progresses (2005) Physics Reports, , 413, 319-396Halpern, J.Y., Harper, R., Immerman, N., Kolaitis, P.G., Vardi, M.Y., Vianu, V., On the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science (2001) The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 7 (2), pp. 213-236Jacobson, N., (1985) Basic Algebra I, , 2nd edn. W. H. Freeman and Company, New YorkPapadimitriou, C., (1994) Computational Complexity, , Adisson-Wesley, London, UKTuring, A.M.: On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, pp. 230-265 (1936) (A correction, ibid, 43, pp. 544-546, 1936-1937

Polynomizing: Logic Inference In Polynomial Format And The Legacy Of Boole

Polynomizing is a term that intends to describe the uses of polynomiallike representations as a reasoning strategy and as a tool for scientific heuristics. I show how proof-theory and semantics for classical and several non-classical logics can be approached from this perspective, and discuss the assessment of this prospect, in particular to recover certain ideas of George Boole in unifying logic, algebra and the differential calculus. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.64349364Agudelo, J.C., Carnielli, W.A.: Quantum algorithms, paraconsistent computation and Deutsch's problem. In Bhanu Prasad et al., eds.: Proceedings of the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pune, India, December 20-22 (2005) IICAI 2005, 1609-1628. Pre-print available from CLE e-Prints 5(10) (2005) ftp://logica.cle.unicamp.br/pub/e-prints/ MTPs-CompQuant%28Ing%29.pdfAhmed, T.S., Algebraic logic, where does it stand today? (2005) Bull. 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