Comments on: Bits, bears, and beyond in Banff

By: Always appropriate | Quantum Frontiers

Always appropriate | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:06:54 +0000

[…] to one-shot information theory. We convened in the mountains of Banff, Canada, about which I wrote another blog post. Come to think of it, Nilanjana lies behind many of my blog posts, as she lies behind many of my […]

By: Memories of things past | Quantum Frontiers

Memories of things past | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:02:10 +0000

[…] influenced me, stirring up memories like powder displaced by a skier on the slopes above us. I first participated in a BIRS workshop as a PhD student, and then I returned as a postdoc. Now, I was […]

By: Life among the experimentalists | Quantum Frontiers

Life among the experimentalists | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:10:57 +0000

[…] measurement outputs a completely random, or uncertain, number. We measure uncertainties with entropies: The greater an entropy, the greater our uncertainty. We can cast uncertainty relations in terms of […]

By: Love in the time of thermo | Quantum Frontiers

Love in the time of thermo | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:22:40 +0000

[…] of thermodynamics in every chapter. The second law implies that time marches only forward, order decays, and randomness scatters information to the wind. García Márquez depicts his characters aging, […]

By: Eleven risks of marrying a quantum information scientist | Quantum Frontiers

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:04:07 +0000

[…] handfuls of humans during a pandemic. Beware the risks of marrying someone who unconsciously types “entropy” when trying to type “entry,” twice in a […]

By: Sense, sensibility, and superconductors | Quantum Frontiers

Sense, sensibility, and superconductors | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:14:21 +0000

[…] terms, because we cast the inequality in terms of entropies. Entropies, described here, are functions that quantify how efficiently we can process information, such as by compressing […]

By: The paper that begged for a theme song | Quantum Frontiers

The paper that begged for a theme song | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 01:08:11 +0000

[…] had a hunch as to how he could derive such a bound. I’ve blogged, many times, about thermodynamic resource theories. Thermodynamic resource theories are simple models, developed in […]

By: Quantum conflict resolution | Quantum Frontiers

Quantum conflict resolution | Quantum Frontiers — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:31:24 +0000

[…] efficiently can one perform an information-processing task? The answer usually depends on an entropy , a property of quantum states and of probability distributions. Uncertainty relations cry out for […]

By: What distinguishes quantum thermodynamics from quantum statistical mechanics? | Quantum Frontiers

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 02:29:51 +0000

[…] use mathematical tools developed in quantum information theory. An example consists of generalized entropies. Entropies quantify the optimal efficiency with which we can perform information-processing and […]

By: Long live Yale’s cemetery | Quantum Frontiers

Long live Yale’s cemetery | Quantum Frontiers — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:27:13 +0000

[…] a cemetery at the University of Cambridge. My next entropy-centric conference took place next to a cemetery in Banff, Canada. A quantum-thermodynamics conference included a tour of an Oxford graveyard.1 (That conference […]