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	Carlton M. Caves Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of New Mexico PhD in Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1979
Center for Quantum Information and Control Department of Physics and Astronomy MSC07 4220 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 USA	Phone: (505) 350-8963 FAX: Don't bother. Photo or scan to pdf and e-mail. E-mail: ccaves at unm.edu
CMC curriculum vitae Google Scholar profile	Biosketch and description of research interests Oral history at the AIP Niels Bohr Library Internal reports on a variety of subjects Presentations I have given and might be induced to give again Tips for solving physics homework problems (Spanish translation by Mauricio Matera of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
Phys 572 Quantum Information Theory Spring 2017 Tutorial introduction to quantum mechanics and quantum information Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Quantum metrology: An information-theoretic perspective (3 introductory lectures) (pptx or ppt or pdf) Phys 366 Mathematical Methods of Physics Fall 2016 Phys 572 Quantum Information Theory Fall 2014 Phys 503 Classical Mechanics I Fall 2013 Phys 521 Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2011 Phys 522 Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2010 Phys 571 Quantum Computation Fall 2009
Commentary on anything I find interesting New Mexico Diaries
For each event is revealed to us only at the surrender of every alternate course. I think ... that the dreamer imagined himself at some crossroads. Yet there are no crossroads. Our decisions do not have some alternative. We may contemplate a choice but we pursue one path only. The log of the world is composed of its entries, but it cannot be divided back into them. And at some point this log must outdistance any possible description of it and this I believe is what the dreamer saw. Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain	Ask, "How does the incredible variety of the world come to be?" and a disembodied voice replies enigmatically, "Rolls of the quantum dice." Puzzled, ask, "But what does that mean?" and the answer is whispered soundlessly in your ear, "Rolls of the quantum dice plumb a bottomless well of information, giving rise to the variety of the world around you." Still puzzled, but sensing the important question, ask haltingly, "So, where is that well?" and no answer comes forth, not even a whisper, for there is no answer, only a description, the phrase that Gertrude Stein used to damn her native Oakland, "There is no there there."
You can try to please all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you generally can't please anyone but yourself (and even that's hard, so you better pay attention to it).
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