Vlatko Vedral

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I’m Vlatko,

I am the Professor of Quantum Information Theory at the University of Oxford.  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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Quantum Relativistic: Being and Becoming

I’ve always found it curious that, while physics profoundly deepens our understanding of reality, it still does not answer some of the most fundamental questions of philosophy (I guess that’s why these questions belong to what we call “meta”physics).

Published: February 2, 2023

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An Unbroken Thread of Discovery

I really disliked history when I was at school. Boring, dry and irrelevant (at least the way I was taught). However, as I get older, I find myself increasingly more and more interested in it.

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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

If we can’t measure something, we can’t know its true nature. This fundamental limitation hampers our understanding of the quantum world – but it doesn’t preclude scientific thinking.

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Why Quantum?

Good wine and weather, brought them all together. It was you that set the spirit free… I of course mean the Ancient Greeks. What an amazing bunch of people that was!

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On Screen

Interview with Professor Vlatko Vedral on Encyclopedia.pub
ManifoldOne Podcast with Steve Hsu
Agelast podcast with Galeba Nikačevića

In Print

Entanglement in a qubit-qubit-tardigrade system

Quantum and biological systems are seldom discussed together as they seemingly demand opposing conditions. Life is complex, “hot and wet”…

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Unpredictability is perfectly possible in a deterministic universe

We revisit the vexed question of how unpredictability can arise in a deterministic universe, focusing on unitary quantum theory. We…

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Witnessing superpositions of causal orders by weak measurements at a given time

The questions we raise in this letter are as follows: What is the most general representation of a quantum state…

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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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