PHY 28B
Natural Computation and Self-Organization:
The Physics of Information Processing in Complex Systems

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@ucdavis.edu; http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Spring
WWW: http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/

Lecture 50: Complexity in Quantum Dynamics I
John Mahoney, Physics, UC Davis

Reading: CMR articles OQS and EQC.

Topics:

  1. Review of basic quantum mechanics
  2. Bloch sphere
  3. Generalized measurements
  4. How to calculate things