Nikolay Murzin 2024-11-01 Nikolay Murzin 2024-11-01

Quantum Potato Chips

Nikolay Murzin, Bruno Tenorio, Sebastian Rodriguez, John McNally, Mohammad Bahrami

This study maps qubit states under symmetric informationally-complete measurements to a tetrahedron in 3D space, identifying a "quantum potato chip" region where quantum states reduce to classical binary variables. States in this special region can be fully reconstructed using only two projective measurements, unlike states elsewhere in the quantum state space.

Xerxes D. Arsiwalla 2023-09-06 Xerxes D. Arsiwalla 2023-09-06

Ruliology: Linking Computation, Observers and Physical Law

Dean Rickles, Hatem Elshatlawy, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

Physical laws arise from the sampling of the Ruliad by observers (including us). This naturally leads to several conceptual issues, such as what kind of object is the Ruliad? What is the nature of the observers carrying out the sampling, and how do they relate to the Ruliad itself? What is the precise nature of the sampling? This paper provides a philosophical examination of these questions, and other related foundational issues, including the identification of a limitation that must face any attempt to describe or model reality in such a way that the modeller-observers are included.