Category Archives: device independence

Pauli braiding

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Thomas

[7/9/17 Update: Following a suggestion by Oded Regev I upgraded Section 1 from “probabilistic functions” to “matrix-valued functions”. This hopefully makes it a more useful, and interesting, mid-point between the classical analysis of BLR and the non-abelian extension discussed afterwards. … Continue reading →

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Foundations of randomness, Day 3

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Thomas

Last day! Wednesday started with a bang. Yevgeniy Dodis spent the whole Tuesday evening (our workshop dinner at Lanzerac!) complaining that we weren’t leaving him enough time to prepare for his talk…only to spend an equal amount of time during his talk … Continue reading →

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Foundations of randomness, Day 2

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Thomas

Back to the fundamentals of randomness and our workshop in Stellenbosch – I want to discuss the remaining two days of talks! The second day started off with a whirlwind tour of the TCS approach to pseudo-randomness by David Zuckerman. David surveyed … Continue reading →

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Foundations of randomness, remainder of Day 1

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Thomas

Today I will cover the remaining talks from the first day of the workshop. Valerio’s opening talk was followed by a stimulating blackboard talk by Renato Renner, who asked the question “Is the existence of randomness an axiom of quantum … Continue reading →

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Foundations of randomness, Day 1: Scarani

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Thomas

As mentioned in the previous post, a highlight of the project I participated in over the past five weeks was the three-day workshop that we organized at STIAS towards the end of October. The purpose of the workshop was to … Continue reading →

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