@Shing I see. Well for one, Shing seems a pretty easy name to say. And secondly, not being able to say a name is their problem, not yours! In any case, I don't know of what name to suggest.
@Slereah I need a French paper on Transcendental Numbers from 1851. I have it, but this shit is in French. I got my friend to translate it and I'm typesetting it now, but I need someone who actually knows maths to review it
Well, I'll just pose the question: the Kármán line is defined as the dividing line between the atmosphere and space. Yet the thermosphere and exosphere are both defined as parts of the atmosphere, and extend far above the Kármán line.
@SirCumference By an ever weirder coincidence, I ended up reading this only yesterday... If you read further down the Wiki page, you find that, according to Wiki "The Kármán line is the altitude where the speed necessary to aerodynamically support the airplane's full weight equals orbital velocity"
it turned out to be completely irrelevant for my uses and it was actually about 10-15km up that the effect I was looking at (parts of atmospheric attenuation) effectively went away
If you use e.g. MODTRAN for atmospheric attenuation, you do find that it (the online version anyway) does only go up to 99km
What I also find weird about it is that it's too low for a low earth orbit as there's too much drag :/ so it really does just feel arbitrary, but I know nothing about astro. stuff :P
@SirCumference shrug The exosphere isn't always regarded as part of the atmosphere, partly because there's no real way to determine where it really ends.
Also, @JaimeGallego's right: It's not a particularly objective definition.
@Zophikel For some reason, the link isn't working and it's not displaying the full URL for me to copy and paste :/ (not that I'll know the answer anyway)
@Zophikel My guess (and I really mean that) is that it doesn't look like you need much knowledge beyond linear algebra... A basic knowledge of classical logic might be useful? I don't know, to be honest, but that's what it looks like at first glance
@Zophikel So have you done any computer science related stuff? You don't need a ton of knowledge of QM, so linear algebra should be fine (as in, I don't personally think that you need to spend ages learning QM as well) with a book that introduces you to the relevant QM
@Zophikel before you start reading textbooks, you might want to try reading through the IBM quantum experience user guide to give you a good flavour of what's going on first and that might help tell you where you might want to learn more stuff before going into it properly
(not that computer security has that much relevance outside of quantum key distribution, although for all I know, it does, but you hopefully understand what a gate is and so on)
If you want a more direct/detailed answer than that, I'm not a mathematician, so can't help you further :/ Quantum Computation by the way, is a different matter - I know mathematicians, computer scientists and physicists who study it
(and quantum engineers actually trying to build one, but for some reason, I consider 'quantum computation to be the theoretical side and quantum engineering to be the experimental side, but maybe that's just me?)
@DanielSank So, we've all got Masters degrees in physics or maths with physics. We've all had lecture courses in quantum information, quantum computation, quantum optics, all the platforms that I know of except for superconducting. We've all spent a week at D-Wave
@DanielSank apart from that, we're a mixture of people with all sorts of backgrounds. Some will go on and do theory, others experimental/engineering work. I'll e-mail you a link of a webpage that I'm too embarrassed to share on here that gives our individual backgrounds in a bit more detail, if you want to read that
@Mithrandir24601 Would there be a way to join this seminar from outside? I'm not a quantum information person (and I wouldn't expect anyone to break it down to my level), but I would be very interested in hearing @DanielSank explaining how a superconducting qubit works.
@DanielSank We've also had lectures in Device Engineering and it's probably helpful for me to mention that optics included some things like the optical Bloch equations etc.
