Intrinsic Quantum Computation
- When?
- Wednesday 8 October 2008, 14:00 to 15:00
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
Dr Karoline Wiesner, School of Mathematics and Centre for Complexity Sciences, University of Bristol
Abstract:
We illustrate a new kind of quantum information processing. Our computation-theoretic approach shows how information processing is embedded in the dynamics of even simple quantum systems. The amount of memory is associated with structure in the dynamics. We suggest an analog quantity for unmeasured quantum systems. It allows us to distinguish between “randomness” and “order”.
Notes:
Karoline Wiesner is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and the Centre for Complexity Sciences at the University of Bristol. Her particular research interest is identifying levels of organisation and building a theory of structure and computation in quantum systems.
Dr. Wiesner received her PhD in Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden, in 2004, on the topic of electronic structure and molecular dynamics. She was awarded the Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Research from Uppsala University for her thesis in 2004. She then joined the group of Jim Crutchfield as a postdoc at the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here she started her work on the mathematical foundations of intrinsic computation in quantum systems. During this time she moved with the Crutchfield group to the University of California Davis. Dr Wiesner won the Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research from the University of California Davis in 2007. In September 2007 she joined the University of Bristol as a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and the Centre for Complexity Sciences.
