Research Papers

These papers have deeply influenced my overall understanding. Each field enriches my understanding of the others - from how quantum mechanics informs my approach to sound, to how neuroscience deepens my grasp of perception and time in both music and computation.

Quantum Representations of Sound: from mechanical waves to quantum circuits

Paulo V. Itaboraí, Eduardo R. Miranda
University of Plymouth
2023

By the time of writing, quantum audio still is a very young area of study, even within the quantum signal processing community. This chapter introduces the state of the art in quantum audio and discusses methods for the quantum representation of audio signals. Currently, no quantum representation strategy claims to be the best one for audio applications.

Quantum ComputingAudioSignal Processing

This research is particularly interesting as it bridges quantum computing with audio processing, showing potential future directions for quantum music applications. Check out the related open-source Python library ⚡quantum-audio⚡

Scalable and High-Fidelity Quantum Random Access Memory in Spin-Photon Networks

K. C. Chen, W. Dai, C. Errando-Herranz, S. Lloyd, D. Englund
PRX Quantum
2021

A quantum random access memory (qRAM) is considered an essential computing unit to enable polynomial speedups in quantum information processing. This paper proposes a photonic-integrated-circuit architecture integrated with solid-state memories as a viable platform for constructing a qRAM.

Quantum ComputingqRAMPhotonics

Following developments in quantum random access memory is important, as it's one of the fundamental building blocks for achieving practical quantum advantage.

Motor-Sensory Recalibration Leads to an Illusory Reversal of Action and Sensation

Chess Stetson, Xu Cui, P. Read Montague, David M. Eagleman
Neuron
2006

To judge causality, organisms must determine the temporal order of their actions and sensations. However, this judgment may be confounded by changing delays in sensory pathways, suggesting the need for dynamic temporal recalibration. To test for such a mechanism, we artificially injected a fixed delay between participants' actions (keypresses) and subsequent sensations (flashes).

NeurosciencePerceptionTimeCausality

This study reveals how our brain adapts to delays between actions and their sensory consequences, fundamentally changing our understanding of temporal perception in interactive systems.

Existence of real time quantum path integrals

Job Feldbrugge, Neil Turok
Annals of Physics
2023

The paper explores the existence of real-time quantum path integrals, which are fundamental to our understanding of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.

Quantum PhysicsPath IntegralsMathematical Physics

A groundbreaking paper that shows how to define Feynman's path integral without imaginary time tricks. Their novel 'eigenflow' method for handling infinite dimensions could be particularly valuable for quantum gravity, where we have good classical theories but struggle with quantum descriptions.