Age of Empires by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Raising and lowering indices by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
History of radio by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Quantum Hall effect by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Quantum version of the Hall effect.
As you increase the magnetic field, you can see the Hall resistance increase, but it does so in discrete steps.
Figure 1.
Hall resistance as a function of the applied magnetic field showing the Quantum Hall effect
. Source. As we can see, the blue line of the Hall resistance TODO material, temperature, etc. It is unclear if this is just
Gotta understand this because the name sounds cool. Maybe also because it is used to define the fucking ampere in the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units.
At least the experiment description itself is easy to understand. The hard part is the physical theory behind.
The effect can be separated into two modes:
Video 1.
Integer and fractional quantum Hall effects by Matthew A. Grayson
. Source. Presented 2015. This dude did good.
Bell's theorem by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Basically a precise statement of "quantum entanglement is spooky".
Quantum computing player by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Quantum computer simulator by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Bibliography:
ZX-calculus by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
How can we easily prove that that quantum circuit equals the state:
?
The naive way would be to just do the matrix multiplication as explained at Section "Quantum computing is just matrix multiplication".
However, ZX-calculus provides a simpler way.
And even more importantly, sometimes it is the only way, because in a real circuit, we would not be able to do the matrix multiplication
What we do in ZX-calculus is we first transform the original quantum circuit into a ZX graph.
This is always possible, because we can describe how to do the conversion simply for any of the Clifford plus T gates, which is a set of universal quantum gates.
Then, after we do this transformation, we can start applying further transformations that simplify the circuit.
It has already been proven that there is no efficient algorithm for this (TODO source, someone said P-sharp complete best case)
But it has been proven in 2017 that any possible equivalence between quantum circuits can be reached by modifying ZX-calculus circuits.
There are only 7 transformation rules that we need, and all others can be derived from those, universality.
So, we can apply those rules to do the transformation shown in Wikipedia:
Figure 1.
GHZ circuit as ZX-diagram
. Source.
and one of those rules finally tells us that that last graph means our desired state:
because it is a Z spider with and .
Video 1.
Working with PyZX by Aleks Kissinger (2019)
Source. This video appears to give amazing motivation on why you should care about ZX-calculus, it mentions
Qubit by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Saylor Academy by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is an interesting initiative which has some similarities to Ciro Santilli's OurBigBook project.
The fatal flaw of the initiative in Ciro Santilli's opinion is the lack of user-generated content. We will never get there without UGC and algorithms, never.
Also as of 2021, it mostly useless business courses: learn.saylor.org unfortunately.
But it has several redeeming factors which Ciro Santilli aproves of:
The founder Michael J. Saylor looks a bit crooked, Rich people who create charitable prizes are often crooked comes to mind. But maybe he's just weird.
Video 1.
Michael Saylor interview by Lex Fridman (2022)
Source.
At the timestamp:
When I go, all my assets will flow into a foundation, and the foundation's mission is to make education free for everybody forever.
What statement... maybe he's actually not crooked, maybe it was just an accounting mistake... God, why.
If only Ciro Santilli knew how to contact him and convince him that his current approach is innefective and that Ciro has something better! Michael, please Google into this page some day, Ciro Santilli needs funding for OurBigBook.com. A hopeless Tweet at: twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1548350114623660035. Also tried to hit his saylor@strategy.com.
Single particle double slit experiment by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This experiment seems to be really hard to do, and so there aren't many super clear demonstration videos with full experimental setup description out there unfortunately.
For single-photon non-double-slit experiments see: single photon production and detection experiments. Those are basically a pre-requisite to this.
photon experiments:
Non-elementary particle:
  • 2019-10-08: 25,000 Daltons
  • interactive.quantumnano.at/letsgo/ awesome interactive demo that allows you to control many parameters on a lab. Written in Flash unfortunately, in 2015... what a lack of future proofing!
Video 1.
Single Photon Interference by Veritasium (2013)
Source. Claims to do exactly what we want, but does not describe the setup precisely well enough. Notably, does not justify how he knows that single photons are being produced.
Micro Bit GPIO by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Pinout overview: makecode.microbit.org/device/pins Basically 0, 1, and 2 are the truly generic ones. They can also serve as ADCs.
Ingot by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Mathieu group by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Gauge theory by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The term and idea was first introduced initialized by Hermann Weyl when he was working on combining electromagnetism and general relativity to formulate Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime in 1918 and published as Gravity and electricity by Hermann Weyl (1918). Based on perception that symmetry implies charge conservation. The same idea was later adapted for quantum electrodynamics, a context in which is has even more impact.
Graphomania by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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