4 research outputs found
Ultra-infra: Becoming Skin
This demonstration showcases outcomes from a program of research that seeks to expand the practice of painting through the exploitation of new digital technologies. Through virtual reality and digital painting processes, this research interrogates the nature of materiality by considering the hidden realities of human skin. The demonstration is in the form of a VR-based artwork delivered on a Windows Mixed Reality headset
On compatibility and improvement of different quantum state assignments
When Alice and Bob have different quantum knowledges or state assignments
(density operators) for one and the same specific individual system, then the
problems of compatibility and pooling arise. The so-called first
Brun-Finkelstein-Mermin (BFM) condition for compatibility is reobtained in
terms of possessed or sharp (i. e., probability one) properties. The second BFM
condition is shown to be generally invalid in an infinite-dimensional state
space. An argument leading to a procedure of improvement of one state
assifnment on account of the other and vice versa is presented.Comment: 8 page
Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical
Decoherence is caused by the interaction with the environment. Environment
monitors certain observables of the system, destroying interference between the
pointer states corresponding to their eigenvalues. This leads to
environment-induced superselection or einselection, a quantum process
associated with selective loss of information. Einselected pointer states are
stable. They can retain correlations with the rest of the Universe in spite of
the environment. Einselection enforces classicality by imposing an effective
ban on the vast majority of the Hilbert space, eliminating especially the
flagrantly non-local "Schr\"odinger cat" states. Classical structure of phase
space emerges from the quantum Hilbert space in the appropriate macroscopic
limit: Combination of einselection with dynamics leads to the idealizations of
a point and of a classical trajectory. In measurements, einselection replaces
quantum entanglement between the apparatus and the measured system with the
classical correlation.Comment: Final version of the review, with brutally compressed figures. Apart
from the changes introduced in the editorial process the text is identical
with that in the Rev. Mod. Phys. July issue. Also available from
http://www.vjquantuminfo.or