[quantum-info] PIQuDos seminar Wed May 20: Lidia del Rio

Gus Gutoski ggutoski at perimeterinstitute.ca
Tue May 19 20:46:54 EDT 2015


Reminder: Lidia del Rio at 4pm in the Time room.

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Gus Gutoski <
ggutoski at perimeterinstitute.ca> wrote:

> Please join us on Wednesday, May 20 at 4pm in the Time room for a quantum
> information seminar by Lidia del Rio.
>
> Resource theories of knowledge
>
> Inspired by quantum information approaches to thermodynamics, we introduce
> a general framework for resource theories, from the perspective of
> subjective agents. First we formalize a way to think of subjective
> knowledge through what we call specification spaces, where states of
> knowledge (or specifications) are represented by sets whose elements are
> the possible states of reality admitted by an observer. We explore how to
> conciliate different views of reality via embeddings between specification
> spaces. Then we introduce resource theories on specification spaces, which
> are constructed from a set of allowed operations, imposing a pre-order
> structure in the specification space. We see how to relate, combine and
> create different resource theories. The local structure of a specification
> space (which in quantum theory is given by tensoring different Hilbert
> spaces) is not assumed a priori. Instead, we derive it operationally from
> commutativity relations in the set of transformations. Further applications
> are discussed.
>
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