On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 6:16:33 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 5:29:21 PM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> But the path integral is both interpretation of quantum computing - >> https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607151 (2006) - and algorithm for the >> Google quantum computer simulator - https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10749 >> (2018). The Google quantum computer paper does not mention "many worlds". >> >> @philipthrift >> > > No it is not. I have worked a derivation of a path integral here before. > If I have to I will do it again. There is nothing in a path integral > outside of plain vanilla QM or QFT. Dowker and others start to assign > ontological meaning to paths and the rest and launch into interpretation. > > LC >
That's not what the two arXiv papers linked to above suggest. And as the first one points out, there is the version of QM based on *state vectors and the wave function*. But saying these exist (in an interpretation of quantum computing) is as "outlandish" as positing *paths or histories *as the basic ingredients. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4159a0ab-2bbb-41a2-ac1c-58e869f102ca%40googlegroups.com.
