3 papers
quant-ph2026
The NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware Was Built to Lose
Amit Hagar
With a single clear exception, every NISQ-era flagship demonstration of 'quantum advantage' has, within eighteen months of its announcement, been classically reproduced, shown to r…
quant-ph2026
The Threshold Theorem in Watts: Fault Tolerance as a Question About Objective Probability
Amit Hagar
In 2011 Hagar & Sergioli proposed a new interpretation of objective probability in deterministic physics. On it, the probability of a physical state supervenes on the resources, en…
quant-ph2005
Explaining the unobserved: why quantum mechanics is not only about information
Amit Hagar, Meir Hemmo
A remarkable theorem by Clifton, Bub and Halvorson (2003)(CBH) characterizes quantum theory in terms of information--theoretic principles. According to Bub (2004, 2005) the philoso…