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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My latest blog post

Logic is defined so that motion looks simple

I’ve always been intrigued by Einstein’s thoughts on physics and geometry. In one of his essays on this topic he says that reality is defined by geometry plus the laws of physics taken together. Each of them can be tweaked individually, says Einstein, but so long as the other is then appropriately adjusted, the outcome will describe one and the same reality.

Published: May 16, 2022

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On Screen

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In Print

Are There Any Real Problems With Quantum Gravity?

We present a short, general and accessible introduction to quantizing gravity in the Heisenberg picture. We then apply this formalism…

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Classical Evolution Without Evolution

The well known argument of Page and Wootters demonstrates how to “derive” the usual quantum dynamics of a subsystem in…

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Amplification of Gravitationally Induced Entanglement

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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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