"new foundations must give new math"

from "The Basic Picture. Structures for constructive topology"

by Giovanni Sambin, Oxford University Press, forthcoming

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Abstracts » Battilotti

Giulia Battilotti
Firenze

A basic pair for quantum mechanics
(joint with Francesco Valfré)

We define a basic pair in Hilbert spaces, illustrating a fundamental relation between states and observables in quantum mechanics.

We briefly discuss it, with particular attention to the holistic treatment of information, due to entangled states, that can be focused thanks to the duality of basic pairs.

This finds a correspondence with a solution found in sequent calculi for quantum computation.

Hopefully, it will help in finding a positive and contructive characterization of entangled states, fundamental for the quantum computational speed up, rather than the negative definition proposed in Hilbert spaces.

Battilotti G., (2008) Interpreting quantum superposition by sequents, to be submitted to Proc. IQSA08.

Dalla Chiara M.L., Giuntini R., Leporini R., (2006) Compositional and Holistic Quantum Computational Semantics, Natural Computing.

Sambin G., (2008) The Basic Picture. Structures for constructive topology, Oxford University Press.

In press. Valfré F., (2007) Defining a Basic Topology for Quantum Mechanics (italian), Laurea Thesis, University of Padua.