Quantum Computation and Information Seminar 

13/12/2007, 15:00 — 16:00 — Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
Marcos Pérez Suárez, SQIG, Instituto de Telecomunicações

On quantum state conditioning and a stochastic representation of quantum operations

Our work is on why and how quantum theory should be understood ultimately as a probability theory in a new form, having a prescriptive -- rather than descriptive -- nature. In this talk, the focus will be on two topics contributing to support such an approach, namely, the conditioning of quantum states through the collection of data and the stochasticity of quantum operations, which provides further insight into the latter as uncertainty encoding structures.