Variational consistent histories as a hybrid algorithm for quantum foundations

The Consistent Histories formalism can solve paradoxes in quantum mechanics, but finding such consistent sets of histories requires a computational overhead which is exponential in the problem’s size. Here, the authors report a variational hybrid algorithm solving this problem using polynomial resou...

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Main Authors: Andrew Arrasmith, Lukasz Cincio, Andrew T. Sornborger, Wojciech H. Zurek, Patrick J. Coles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11417-0