Emergent Decoherent Histories with Philipp Strasberg

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Recorded: 2024/03/19 Released: 2024/12/29

Jim talks with Philipp Strasberg
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1. The articles that we discussed for this program:

• Strasberg, P., T.E. Reinhard and J. Schindler, "First Principles Numerical Demonstration of Emergent Decoherent Histories." Phys. Rev. X 14 231402 (2024) [arXiv]
• Strasberg, P. and J. Schindler, "Shearing Off the Tree: Emerging Branch Structure and Born's Rule in an Equilibrated Multiverse." (2024) [ arXiv ]

2. Other papers and articles mentioned in the podcast:

• Everett III, H., The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton University (1956) [ Free ]

3. Related Episodes of Physics Frontiers:

• Physics Frontiers 75: Which Theories Have a Measurement Problem? with Nick Ormrod and Vilasini Venkatesh
• Physics Frontiers 70: Path Integrals and Entanglement with Kenneth Wharton
• Physics Frontiers 30: Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

4. Related Episodes of Quantum Paradoxes:

• Qunatum Intermission: Quantum Metaphysics
• Quantum Paradoxes 9: Quantum Cats

5. Books mentioned in this podcast:

• Bell, J., The Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics.
• Subsbury, Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature.

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Primordial Black Holes with Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David Kaiser

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Recorded: 2024/07/03 Released: 2024/09/03

Jim talks with Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David Kaiser about the prospects of a class of primordial black holes as a candidate for dark matter. These tiny black holes form just after the inflationary epoch when it is possible for them to form from inhomogeneities wihtout a prior history as a star. Black holes forming during this time time-frame would not have to be color neutral as baryons and mesons are.
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1. The articles that we discussed for this program:

• Alonso-Monsalve, E. and D.I. Kaiser, "Primordial Black Holes with QCD Color Charge." Phys. Rev. Lett. 132 231402 (2024) [arXiv]
• Alonso-Monsalve, E. and D.I. Kaiser, "Debye Screening of Non-Abelian Plasmas in Curved Spacetimes." Phys. Rev. D 108 125010 (2023) [ arXiv ]

2. Other papers and articles mentioned in the podcast:

• De Swart, J., "How Dark Matter Came To Matter." Nature Astronomy 1 0059 (2017) . [ Free

3.Dave's webpage at MIT.

• One of Dave's books I particularly liked: Drawing Theories Apart
• Dave's OCW lectures on YouTube - Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics of the 20th Century.

4. Related Episodes of Physics Frontiers:

• Physics Frontiers 71: Inflation and the Primordial Graviton Background with Sunny Vagnozzi
• Physics Frontiers 69: The Flavor Puzzle with Joe Davighi
• Physics Frontiers 57: Quantum Effects and Gravitational Waves
• Physics Frontiers 51: Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Physics Frontiers 31: The Parameterized Post-Newtonian Framework
• Physics Frontiers 10: Requirements for Gravitational Theories

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Quantum Machine Learning with Bruna Shinohara

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Recorded: 2024/02/16 Released: 2024/05/31

Jim talks with Bruna Shinohara about quantum machine learning.
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1. The article that we discussed in this program:

• Biamonte, J. P. Wittek, N. Pancotti, P. Rebentrost, N. Wiebe, S. Lloyd, "Quantum Machine Learning." Nature 549 195 (2017) [arXiv]
• Wang, Y., "When Quantum Computing Meets Data Science." [ Free ]
• Schuld, M. and N. Killoran, "Is Quantum Advantange the Right Goal for Quantum Machine Learning?." PRX 3 030101 (2022) [ arXiv ]

2. Other papers and articles mentioned in the podcast:

• Aaronson, Scott, "Read the Fine Print." Nature Physics 11 211 (2015). [ Free
• I'll ask Bruna to send me a link to the large QML article she talked about in the podcast.

/ 3. Related Episodes of Physics Frontiers:

• Physics Frontiers 73: Quantum Money with Jiahui Liu
• Physics Frontiers 64: Born's Rule with Blake Stacey

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Maxwellian Ratchets with Alex Jurgens

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Recorded: 2023/12/18 Released: 2024/03/31

Jim talks with Alex Jurgens of INRIA about Maxwellian Ratchets. These are abstract machines that react to outside stimuli, These are highly specified theoretical realizations of Maxwell's Demon, who flaunts the second law of thermodynamics. Jurgens discusses these in terms of entropy, information processessing, and the second law.
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1. The article that we discussed in this program:

• Kiefer, Claus, "Functional Thermodynamics of Mawellian Ratchets: Constructing and Deconstructing Patterns, Randomizing and Derandomizing Behaviors." Phys. Rev. Research 2 033334 (2020) [arXiv]

2. Related Episodes of Physics Frontiers:

• Physics Frontiers 74: Maxwellian Ratchets with David Wolpert
• Physics Frontiers 68: Qunatum Resource Theories with Gilad Gour

3. Books mentioned:

• The Road to Maxwell's Demon, Meir Hemmo and Orly R. Shenker. Claus' book on quantum gravity.
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Undecidability and Theories of Everything with Claus Kiefer

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Recorded: 2023/08/07 Released: 2024/01/28

Jim talks with Claus Kiefer about his recent essay on the relationship between the Gödel's incompleteness theoerems and the possibility of developing a theory of everything. Incompleteness was originally developed to show that every axiomatic system that is sufficiently robust admits well-formed statements that have a liar's paradox-like structure - if you assume the statement is true, you can prove it's false, and vice-versa. This statement is then said to be undecidable. Undecidability also famously comes up in the halting problem of computer science and the continuum hypothesis. Professor Kiefer speculates here that theories of everything are similarly undecidable.
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1. The article that we discussed in this program:

• Kiefer, Claus, "Gödel's undecidability theorems and the search for a theory of everything" (2023) [arXiv]

2. Other papers referred to in this podcast:

• Cubitt, T.,D. Perez-Garcia and H.M. Wolf, "Undecidability of the Spectral Gap." Nature 528 207 (2015) [arXiv]
• Goedel,, K., "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik 38 173 (1931) [Free]
• The Undecidable [Amazon], M. Davis, ed. Reprints Goedel's paper and other work from the 1930's. Dover book.

3. Related Episodes of Physics Frontiers:

• Physics Frontiers 69: The Flavor Puzzle with Joe Davighi
• Physics Frontiers 62: Deformed Special Relativity
• Physics Frontiers 45: Loop Quantum Gravity
• Physics Frontiers 35: The String THeory Landscape.

4. Books mentioned:

• Quantum Gravity, 3rd. Ed., Claus Kiefer. Claus' book on quantum gravity.
• The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time, H. Dieter Zeh. Excellent book going over how the arrow of time might be directed via different aspects of physics. Video Review
• The Undecidable [Amazon], M. Davis, ed. Reprints Goedel's paper and other work from the 1930's. Dover book.
• The Character of Physical Law, Richard Feynman
• Road to Reality, Roger Penrose
• Non Standard Analysis, Abraham Robinson or Applied Non-Standard Analysis, Martin Davis. Two books on non-standard analysis. Despite The Undecidable and Applied Non-Standard Analysis being about 6" from each other on my bookshelves for at least a decade, I didn't make the connection that the editor of the first was also the author of the second until this moment.
• Goedel, Escher, Bach, D. Hofstadter.

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