Checking date: 24/04/2023


Course: 2023/2024

Quantum logic and information processing
(19586)
Master in Quantum Technologies and Engineering (Plan: 476 - Estudio: 379)
EPI


Coordinating teacher: BOUSOÑO CALZON, CARLOS

Department assigned to the subject: Signal and Communications Theory Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Fundamentals of Machine Learning (desirable)
Objectives
To give the student a new perspective on data analysis (textbases, experiment results, questionnaires) that facilitates creativity for research in multidisciplinary fields. To this end, a non-classical probabilistic model is introduced to explain phenomena considered "anomalous" or not "rational" in the traditional literature (e.g. Tversky and Shafir). These mathematical models are non-Boolean logic-based, with a final structure that allows the use of conventional tools in quantum mechanics, which is why we usually call them "quantum-like."
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Why do we need non-classical probabilistic formalisms in data analysis and modelling? Paradoxes in experiments, main concepts in broader probabilistic paradigms, and research opportunities. 2. A first approximation into this subject: Experiments in cognition. Disjunction effect. Conjunction fallacy. Probability interference. 3. Some account of Mathematical tools: Lattices and Logic (Classical vs. Quantum). Hilbert space tools (States, Gleason's theorem, and non-unitary system evolution). 4. An interesting line: Concepts composition and vectorial text embedding in NLP (BERT, GPT4): Contexts, individual mental spaces, and collective spaces. 5. Some fun with Game Theory: Decision Making and Strategic games with incomplete information. 6. Some other possible excursions: 6.1 Formal Concept Analysis 6.2 Simplicial complex lattices: Chaotic dynamical attractors 6.3 Second quantization -from scratch- in social applications 6.4 Implementation on Quantum Computers .
Learning activities and methodology
- Focus on applying the introduced models in various multidisciplinary applications: finance, health, risk management, geostrategy, ecosystems, or conflict management, through the student's choice of their deliverables. - Conducting experiments and games in the classroom to understand and evaluate the concepts. - Use of mathematical models as simple as possible: the Hilbert spaces used are of finite dimension so that the spectra of the operators are eigenvalues, avoiding the introduction of projection valued sigma-measures and Finite Lattices. - Different analytical perspectives are presented: probabilistic/algebraic to allow understanding of the subject. - Links with other fields of knowledge will be established to allow the development of multidisciplinary research. - Text embedding (BERT. GPT4) - Formal Concept Analysis - Simplicial complexes in signal processing and chaotic dynamical attractors.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 10
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 90
Calendar of Continuous assessment
Basic Bibliography
  • Busemeyer, J. R., & Bruza, P. D. . Quantum models of cognition and decision.. Cambridge University Press. 2012
  • Khrennikov, A. . Ubiquitous quantum structure.. Springer.. 2010
  • Van Rijsbergen, C. J.. The geometry of information retrieval. Cambridge University Press. 2004
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Additional Bibliography
  • Binmore, Ken. Fun and Games. A text on game theory. DC Heath. 1992
  • Cohen, D. W. . An introduction to Hilbert space and quantum logic. Springer Science & Business Media.. 2012
  • Halmos, P. R.. Introduction to Hilbert space and the theory of spectral multiplicity.. Courier Dover Publications.. 2017
  • Haven, E., Khrennikov, A. Y., & Robinson, T. R. . Quantum methods in social science: A first course. World Scientific Publishing Company. 2017
  • Holevo, A. S. . Statistical structure of quantum theory . Springer Science & Business Media. 2003
  • Rédei, M. . Quantum logic in algebraic approach. Springer Science & Business Media.. 2013
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