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Game Theory: With Quantum Mechanics, Odds Are Always in Your Favor

Vladimir Silva

This chapter explores two game puzzles that show the remarkable power of quantum algorithms over their classical counterparts:

Apress eBooksJan 1, 20180 citations

Quantum Game Theory — I

Indranil Ghosh

ResonanceMay 1, 20219 citations

Quarticles

Nick Huggett

Quantum mechanics, like relativity, is a pillar of contemporary physics, with remarkable, puzzling consequences. In these chapters some very simple ‘games’ – distributing prizes of different kinds – are used to explain the implications for ‘identity’. Classical particles have ‘Maxwell‐Boltzmann’ statistics, according to which swapping properties makes a difference; similarly for people, as it makes a difference if we swap bank accounts! Quantum particles with ‘Bose‐Einstein’ statistics (called bosons) or ‘Fermi‐Dirac’ statistics (fermions) are like dollars in bank accounts: if we swap $1 it makes no difference. Chapter 17 shows how Schrödinger used the prize games to argue that – like the dollars – bosons and fermions are not ‘identifiable things’. Chapter 18 extends the models to other possible quantum particles, arguing that quantum mechanics also restricts identity by restricting what states particles can possess together – for instance, Fermi's ‘exclusion principle’, that fermions must be in different states.Quantum mechanics, like relativity, is a pillar of contemporary physics, with remarkable, puzzling consequences. In these chapters some very simple ‘games’ – distributing prizes of different kinds – are used to explain the implications for ‘identity’. Classical particles have ‘Maxwell‐Boltzmann’ statistics, according to which swapping properties makes a difference; similarly for people, as it makes a difference if we swap bank accounts! Quantum particles with ‘Bose‐Einstein’ statistics (called bosons) or ‘Fermi‐Dirac’ statistics (fermions) are like dollars in bank accounts: if we swap $1 it makes no difference. Chapter 17 shows how Schrödinger used the prize games to argue that – like the dollars – bosons and fermions are not ‘identifiable things’. Chapter 18 extends the models to other possible quantum particles, arguing that quantum mechanics also restricts identity by restricting what states particles can possess together – for instance, Fermi's ‘exclusion principle’, that fermions must be in different states.

Oxford University Press eBooksJan 5, 20100 citations

PLAYING GAMES IN QUANTUM MECHANICAL SETTINGS: FEATURES OF QUANTUM GAMES

Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Junichi Shimamura, Nobuyuki Imoto

Apr 1, 20080 citations

Identity

Nick Huggett

Quantum mechanics, like relativity, is a pillar of contemporary physics, with remarkable, puzzling consequences. In these chapters some very simple ‘games’ – distributing prizes of different kinds – are used to explain the implications for ‘identity’. Classical particles have ‘Maxwell‐Boltzmann’ statistics, according to which swapping properties makes a difference; similarly for people, as it makes a difference if we swap bank accounts! Quantum particles with ‘Bose‐Einstein’ statistics (called bosons) or ‘Fermi‐Dirac’ statistics (fermions) are like dollars in bank accounts: if we swap $1 it makes no difference. Chapter 17 shows how Schrödinger used the prize games to argue that – like the dollars – bosons and fermions are not ‘identifiable things’. Chapter 18 extends the models to other possible quantum particles, arguing that quantum mechanics also restricts identity by restricting what states particles can possess together – for instance, Fermi's ‘exclusion principle’, that fermions must be in different states.Quantum mechanics, like relativity, is a pillar of contemporary physics, with remarkable, puzzling consequences. In these chapters some very simple ‘games’ – distributing prizes of different kinds – are used to explain the implications for ‘identity’. Classical particles have ‘Maxwell‐Boltzmann’ statistics, according to which swapping properties makes a difference; similarly for people, as it makes a difference if we swap bank accounts! Quantum particles with ‘Bose‐Einstein’ statistics (called bosons) or ‘Fermi‐Dirac’ statistics (fermions) are like dollars in bank accounts: if we swap $1 it makes no difference. Chapter 17 shows how Schrödinger used the prize games to argue that – like the dollars – bosons and fermions are not ‘identifiable things’. Chapter 18 extends the models to other possible quantum particles, arguing that quantum mechanics also restricts identity by restricting what states particles can possess together – for instance, Fermi's ‘exclusion principle’, that fermions must be in different states.

Oxford University Press eBooksJan 5, 20100 citations

Quantum Game Theory — III

Indranil Ghosh

ResonanceJul 1, 20212 citations

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