Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory II

Presentations

• General probabilistic theories for quantum foundations and quantum information

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 11, 2008, 2:30 PM – March 11, 2008, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Barrett

    University of Cambridge

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• Fully epistemic toy theory

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 3:06 PM – March 11, 2008, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Skotiniotis

    Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary

  • Aidan Roy

    Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary

  • Barry C. Sanders

    IQIS, University of Calgary, University of Calgary, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary

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• Tensor products and teleportation protocols for abstract state spaces

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 3:18 PM – March 11, 2008, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Alexander Wilce

    Susquehanna University

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• The Density Matrix and the Interpretation of Quantum Theory

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 3:30 PM – March 11, 2008, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Owen Maroney

    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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• An Approach to Quantum State Pooling from Quantum Conditional Independence

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 11, 2008, 3:42 PM – March 11, 2008, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Leifer

    University of Waterloo

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• New results in the category-theoretic approach to foundations of quantum physics

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 4:18 PM – March 11, 2008, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Bob Coecke

    Oxford University

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• Graphical Calculi and Mutually Unbiassed Embeddings of Classical Logic

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 4:30 PM – March 11, 2008, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Ross Duncan

    Oxford University

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• Basing quantum theory on information processing

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 4:42 PM – March 11, 2008, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Howard Barnum

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL, Los Alamos National Laboratory and GSCCM Chair

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• Quantum mechanics and the nature of the second law of thermodynamics

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 4:54 PM – March 11, 2008, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ian T. Durham

    Saint Anselm College

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• Many worlds and the appearance of probability in quantum mechanics

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 5:06 PM – March 11, 2008, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Robert A. Van Wesep

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• Quantum catalysis of information

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 5:18 PM – March 11, 2008, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Koji Azuma

    Department of Materials Engineering Science, Osaka University

  • Masato Koashi

    Department of Materials Engineearing Science, Osaka University; CREST

  • Nobuyuki Imoto

    Department of Materials Engineearing Science, Osaka University; CREST

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