{"id":11131,"date":"2019-07-24T18:53:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11131"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:06:23","slug":"quick-links-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11131","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick links:\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philip Ball at Quanta has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/quantum-darwinism-an-idea-to-explain-objective-reality-passes-first-tests-20190722\/\">nice article on &#8220;Quantum Darwinism&#8221;<\/a> and experiments designed to exhibit actual toy examples of the idea in action (I don&#8217;t think &#8220;testing&#8221; the idea is quite the right language in this context).  What&#8217;s at issue is the difficult problem of how to understand the way in which classical behavior emerges from an underlying quantum system.  For a recent survey article discussing the ideas surrounding Quantum Darwinism, see <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.02092\">this from Wojciech Zurek<\/a>.\n<p>Jess Riedel at his blog has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jessriedel.com\/2019\/07\/24\/faq-about-experimental-quantum-darwinism\/\">FAQ About Experimental Quantum Darwinism<\/a> which gives more detail about what is actually going on here. <\/li>\n<li>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/physics\/events\/summer-intensive-programs\/theoretical-advanced-study-institute-elementary-particle-physics-0\">TASI summer school<\/a> made the excellent choice of concentrating on issues in quantum field theory.  Videos, mostly well worth watching, are available <a href=\"https:\/\/physicslearning.colorado.edu\/tasi\/tasi_2019\/tasi_2019.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This month&#8217;s Notices of the AMS has a fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/201907\/rnoti-p1069.pdf\">article about Grothendieck<\/a>, by Paulo Ribenboim.  It comes with a mysterious &#8220;Excerpt from&#8221; title and editor&#8217;s note:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Ribenboim\u2019s original piece contains some additional facts that are not included in this excerpt. Readers interested in the full text should contact the author.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve finally located a valuable Twitter account, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BullshitQuantum\">this one<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick links: Philip Ball at Quanta has a nice article on &#8220;Quantum Darwinism&#8221; and experiments designed to exhibit actual toy examples of the idea in action (I don&#8217;t think &#8220;testing&#8221; the idea is quite the right language in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11136,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}