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Details for Dr Karoline Wiesner
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| Name | Dr Karoline Wiesner | ||
| Job title | Reader in Complexity Sciences |
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| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | Ph.D.(Uppsala) | ||
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| Keywords | complex systems quantum information |
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| Areas of expertise | I like to summarize my research as follows: Nature stores and processes information - it computes. Scientists have successfully described various physical processes as a computation - among others: Electronic excitations, molecular self-assembly, DNA transcription. Some of these are quantum, others are classical computations. How can we find the correct computation-theoretic model in general? When is nature a classical and when a quantum computer? I develop quantum computation-theoretic models of physical systems to answer this question. Turning the question on its head I ask "How do physical systems, that are described by different computation-theoretic models, differ in their physical structure". I suggest that we can learn about the hierarchical structure that connects physics, chemistry, and biology from looking at computational capacity. |
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