Electronic Structure Reading Group: Information causality and quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is the foundation of quantum chemistry, and usually its laws are taken as fundamental axioms. However, it has been shown that some aspects of quantum mechanics, in particular the type of correlations it allows, can be justified from basic physical assumptions. This session will give a brief introduction to this argument. If time allows, some further discussion of entanglement and resource theories will be included at the end.

References:
Pawłowski, M., Paterek, T., Kaszlikowski, D. et al. Information causality as a physical principle. Nature 461, 1101–1104 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08400
Jennings, D., Nonlocality and Entanglement Theory, lecture notes. http://www.david-jennings.net/uploads/9/5/6/7/9567220/entanglement.pdf

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The electronic structure reading group brings together researchers and students interested in mathematical aspects of electronic structure problems and adjacent topics, including:

• Density Functional Theory
• Many-body Schrödinger equation for electrons
• Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics
• Numerical analysis and error control