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    Quantum Computing Since Democritus is a 2013 book on quantum information science written by Scott Aaronson. It is loosely based on a course Aaronson taught...
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  • This glossary of quantum computing is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in quantum computing, its sub-disciplines, and related fields. Bacon–Shor...
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    Scott Aaronson (category American quantum information scientists)
    "PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus". scottaaronson.com. Retrieved January 23, 2014. "Quantum Computing Democritus :: Quantum physics, quantum information...
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    Qubit (redirect from Quantum bit)
    In quantum computing, a qubit (/ˈkjuːbɪt/) or quantum bit is a basic unit of quantum information—the quantum version of the classic binary bit physically...
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    7852. doi:10.1137/S0097539796300921. Aaronson, Scott (2013). Quantum Computing Since Democritus. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511979309...
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  • Chris (Fall 2006). "Lecture 14: Skepticism of Quantum Computing". PHYS771: Quantum Computing Since Democritus. Shtetl Optimized. Retrieved 2018-12-27. Fowler...
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  • Circuit satisfiability problem (category Computability theory)
    proof given in Scott Aaronson's lecture notes from his course Quantum Computing Since Democritus. Sergey Nurk (December 1, 2009). "An O(2^{0.4058m}) upper...
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    Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, by David Kaiser Scott, Aaronson (2013). Quantum Computing Since Democritus. Cambridge University Press....
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    : 122  General relativity and quantum mechanics have been repeatedly validated in their separate fields of relevance. Since the usual domains of applicability...
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  • Fraunhofer Johannes Rydberg J. J. Thomson Ernest Rutherford Democritus Vaiśeṣika Sūtra Post quantum mechanics Alexander Dalgarno David Bates Niels Bohr Max...
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    approximately 2000 years after it was proposed by Leucippus and his pupil Democritus. During the classical period in Greece (6th, 5th and 4th centuries BCE)...
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    by catastrophe theory and chaos theory. Progression of atomic theory Democritus, the originator of atomic theory, held that everything is composed of...
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  • condensed matter topics were considered as part of physics since the development of quantum mechanics and microscopic theories of matter. According to...
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    number, with Empedocles' elements taking the form of the Platonic solids. Democritus, and later philosophers—most notably Leucippus—proposed that the universe...
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    calculation is very good. These calculations were published in his work Democritus reviviscens sive de atomis. The concept of atomic radius was preceded...
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    eidola) that were captured by the eye. With many propagators including Democritus, Epicurus, Aristotle and their followers, this theory seems to have some...
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    in its organization has a long history. The ancient atomists such as Democritus and Lucretius believed that a designing intelligence is unnecessary to...
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    ancient Greece. Greek atomism was made popular by the Greek philosopher Democritus, who declared that matter is composed of indivisible and indestructible...
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    particles were also studied by ancient Greek philosophers such as Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus; ancient Indian philosophers such as Kanada, Dignāga, and...
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  • atoms was developed by the Greek philosopher Leucippus and his student Democritus. Later, Epicurus would develop a full natural cosmology based on atomism...
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  • Rutherford scattering experiments (category Foundational quantum physics)
    the most important scientific achievement since Democritus proposed the atom ages earlier. Rutherford has since been hailed as "the father of nuclear physics"...
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    idea that had been suggested earlier by the ancient Greek philosophers, Democritus and Epicurus, and by medieval Islamic cosmologists such as Fakhr al-Din...
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    earliest Western thinkers to address chance and randomness. Around 400 BC, Democritus presented a view of the world as governed by the unambiguous laws of order...
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    Anaximander, introduce the idea of multiple or even infinite universes. Democritus further detailed that these worlds varied in distance, size; the presence...
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  • imperishable units called atoms. This was greatly expanded on by his pupil Democritus and later Epicurus. Plato and Aristotle produced the first systematic...
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  • for long enough they could even get a spark to jump. At around 450 BCE Democritus, a later Greek philosopher, developed an atomic theory that was similar...
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  • of atomism, propounded by the pre-Socratic philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, was naturalistic, accounting for the workings of the world by impersonal...
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  • Technology; credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar Democritus (460 BC – 370 BC): Ancient Greek philosopher; influential pre-Socratic...
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    Similar to the atomists of Democritus, the Mo Jing stated that a point is the smallest unit, and cannot be cut in half, since 'nothing' cannot be halved...
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    Newton's Principia (1946), The founders of the natural science Pythagoras – Democritus – Aristotle – Archimedes (1947), History of astronomy – from its beginnings...
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