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2026
preprint
OpenAlex
David Wakeham
Spurred by Einstein's appendix to \emph{The Meaning of Relativity}, we embark on an algebraic voyage from von Neumann algebras to the emergence of special relativity from algebraic structure. We identify time with modular flow (in line with Connes and Rovelli's Thermal Time …
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2026
preprint
OpenAlex
David Wakeham
Spurred by Einstein's appendix to \emph{The Meaning of Relativity}, we embark on an algebraic voyage from von Neumann algebras to the emergence of special relativity from algebraic structure. We identify time with modular flow (in line with Connes and Rovelli's Thermal Time …
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2025
preprint
OpenAlex
David Wakeham
Qubits are a great way to build a quantum computer, but a limited way to program one. We replace the usual "states and gates" formalism with a "props and ops" (propositions and operators) model in which (a) the C*-algebra of observables supplies …
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2025
article
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Oriel Kiss, Utkarsh Azad, Borja Requena, Alessandro Roggero et autres
We investigate the feasibility of early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms focusing on ground-state energy estimation problems. In particular, we examine the computation of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the spectral measure of a Hamiltonian and the identification of its discontinuities. Scaling these …
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2025
preprint
OpenAlex
David Wakeham
This essay gives a short, informal account of the development of digital logic from the Pleistocene to the Manhattan Project, the introduction of reversible circuits, and Richard Feynman's allied proposal for quantum computing. We argue that Feynman's state-based analogy is not the …
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2024
preprint
OpenAlex
David Wakeham, Maria Schuld
How can we take inspiration from a typical quantum algorithm to design heuristics for machine learning? A common blueprint, used from Deutsch-Josza to Shor's algorithm, is to place labeled information in superposition via an oracle, interfere in Fourier space, and measure. In …
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2024
preprint
OpenAlex
Oriel Kiss, Utkarsh Azad, Borja Requena, Alessandro Roggero et autres
We investigate the feasibility of early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms focusing on ground-state energy estimation problems. In particular, we examine the computation of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the spectral measure of a Hamiltonian and the identification of its discontinuities. Scaling these …
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2021
article
OpenAlex
Wyatt Reeves, Moshe Rozali, Petar Simidzija, James Sully et autres
Abstract When does a holographic CFT with a boundary added to it (a BCFT) also have a ‘good’ holographic dual with a localized gravitating end-of-the-world brane? We argue that the answer to this question is almost never. By studying Lorentzian BCFT correlators, …
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2021
article
OpenAlex
Ning Bao, Jason Pollack, David Wakeham, Elizabeth Wildenhain
Abstract In this work, we use quantum complexity theory to quantify the difficulty of distinguishing eigenstates obeying the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). After identifying simple operators with an algebra of low-energy observables and tracing out the complementary high-energy Hilbert space, the ETH …
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2021
article
OpenAlex
Alex May, David Wakeham
Abstract In recent work, it was argued that quantum computations with inputs and outputs distributed in spacetime, or quantum tasks, impose constraints on entanglement in holographic theories. The resulting constraint was named the connected wedge theorem and can be verified by a …
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2021
article
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James Sully, Mark Van Raamsdonk, David Wakeham
Abstract In this note, we consider entanglement and Renyi entropies for spatial subsystems of a boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) or of a CFT in a state constructed using a Euclidean BCFT path integral. Holographic calculations suggest that these entropies undergo phase …
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2020
preprint
OpenAlex
David Wakeham
At a certain infamous tea party, the Mad Hatter posed the following riddle: why is a raven like a writing-desk? We do not answer this question. Instead, we solve a related nonsense query: why is a soap bubble like a railway? The …