Vlatko Vedral

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I’m Vlatko,

I am the Professor of Quantum Information Theory at the University of Oxford, as well as for the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.  I spend a lot of my time thinking about what quantum mechanics actually means, and how it affects everything and everyone around us.

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Latest Research

Classical and Quantum Orbital Correlations in the Molecular Electronic States

The quantum superposition principle has been extensively utilized in the quantum mechanical description of the bonding phenomenon. It explains the emergence of delocalized molecular orbitals and provides a recipe for the construction of near-exact electronic wavefunctions. On the other hand,…

Published: July 29, 2021

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In Print

Refrigeration with Indefinite Causal Orders on a Cloud Quantum Computer

We demonstrate non-classical cooling on the IBMq cloud quantum computer. We implement a recently proposed refrigeration protocol which relies upon…

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Indefinite Causal Orders from Superpositions in Time

Treating the time of an event as a quantum variable, we derive a scheme in which superpositions in time are…

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Perturbative quantum simulation

Approximations based on perturbation theory are the basis for most of the quantitative predictions of quantum mechanics, whether in quantum…

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Modern Foundations Of Quantum Optics
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Introductory Quantum Physics And Relativity
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Solid State Quantum Information
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Introduction to Quantum Information Science
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Decoding Reality
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From Micro to Macro
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On Screen

So you want to study physics?
Challenges for Witnessing Quantum Aspects of Gravity in a Lab
The Quantum Music Project

Blog

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How quantum theory says we can never see a complete picture of reality

Schrödinger’s cat is only the start of quantum weirdness, it leads us to strange worlds where personalities split and time does not exist.

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I’m building a machine that breaks the rules of reality

We thought only fools messed with the cast-iron laws of thermodynamics, but quantum trickery is rewriting the rulebook.

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Opinions

What life wants

Dead matter has no goals of its own, yet life is constantly striving. That makes it a deep puzzle for physics.

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