{"id":8,"date":"2023-05-11T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:38:03","slug":"a-physicist-investigating-the-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1816-1024x834.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1816-1024x834.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1816-300x244.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1816-768x626.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1816-1536x1251.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1816-2048x1668.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1816-1568x1277.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>I&#8217;m a research scientist in theoretical physics at the University of Bristol. I have a long standing passion for science and technology, and in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics. I enjoy searching for insights into the way it works, and for phenomena which appear counterintuitive at first glance. I believe that the world operates locally, but quantum mechanics has various phenomena which are non-local when described in our usual (classical) language, such as violations of Bell inequalities, counterfactual communication, and the Aharonov-Bohm effect. I study these and related effects, principally using thought experiments to demonstrate specific tasks which can be performed. I\u2019m interested in non-locality, entanglement, quantum conservation laws, quantum retrodiction, quantum information, quantum computation: anything novel with a quantum component!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c0ca7d81 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-extra-large-font-size\">Recent Posts<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-3 wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=475\">Networks of quantum reference frames and the nature of conserved quantities<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Whenever we describe the position of an object, we actually mean the position relative to a frame of reference such as a wall, a table, the sun, etc.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Networks of quantum reference frames and the nature of conserved quantities<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=469\">Charge acceleration without radiation<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">It has always been assumed that whenever we accelerate an electron, it produces electromagnetic radiation, such as light or radio waves. This effect lies behind much of modern&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=469\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charge acceleration without radiation<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=452\">Article in Physics World<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A paper by Yakir Aharonov, Sandu Popescu and I: &#8220;Angular Momentum Flows without anything carrying it&#8220;, recently appeared in Physics World, as part of an article Quantum Cheshire&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=452\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article in Physics World<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=438\">Article in New Scientist<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Research by Sandu Popescu and I (Conservation Laws For Every Quantum Measurement Outcome) was recently featured in New Scientist, as How a Quantum innovation may quash the idea&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=438\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article in New Scientist<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=442\">UCL Quantum Information Theory Talk<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I gave a talk on Quantum Conservation Laws (and how to fix them) at UCL, in the Department for Computer Science. The slides are below.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=407\">Articles in New Scientist, Scientific American &amp; Spektrum.de<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Our paper, &#8220;Angular Momentum Flows without anything carrying it&#8221;, was recently featured in New Scientist, in New spin on quantum theory forces rethink of a fundamental physics law.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/?p=407\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Articles in New Scientist, Scientific American &amp; Spektrum.de<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a research scientist in theoretical physics at the University of Bristol. I have a long standing passion for science and technology, and in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics. I enjoy searching for insights into the way it works, and for phenomena which appear counterintuitive at first glance. I believe that the world&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daniel Collins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgcollins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}