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Bananaworld : quantum mechanics for primates / Jeffrey Bub, Distinguished University Professor, Philosophy Department, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland. College Park, USA ; illustrations by Tanya Bub, with a bow to John Tenniel.

By: Bub, Jeffrey [author.].
Contributor(s): Bub, Tanya [illustrator.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: First edition.Description: xiii, 273 pages : UKP 15.99 illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198718536 (hbk.); 0198718535 (hbk.); 9780198817840 (pbk.).Other title: Banana world.Subject(s): Quantum theory | Quantum theoryDDC classification: 530.1/2 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
Nobody understands quantum mechanics -- Qubits -- Bananaworld -- Really random -- The big picture -- Quantum magic -- Quantum secrets -- Quantum feats -- Why the quantum? -- Making sense of it all -- Supplement: Some mathematical machinery. Dirac's ingenious idea ; The Pauli operators ; The Born rule ; Noncommutativity and uncertainty ; Entanglement ; Quantum dynamics ; Relative phase ; Informationally complete observables ; The biorthogonal decomposition theorem ; States and operators as matrices ; Mixed states.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nobody understands quantum mechanics -- Qubits -- Bananaworld -- Really random -- The big picture -- Quantum magic -- Quantum secrets -- Quantum feats -- Why the quantum? -- Making sense of it all -- Supplement: Some mathematical machinery. Dirac's ingenious idea ; The Pauli operators ; The Born rule ; Noncommutativity and uncertainty ; Entanglement ; Quantum dynamics ; Relative phase ; Informationally complete observables ; The biorthogonal decomposition theorem ; States and operators as matrices ; Mixed states.