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Heisenberg Quantum Computing

Heisenberg informed Wolfgang Pauli on July 9, 1925, of his groundbreaking atomic theory reformulation. Modern quantum mechanics was founded on his Helgoland ideas. His Helgoland beliefs informed modern quantum physics. Max Born and Pascual Jordan developed and mathematically formalised his original ideas to create matrix mechanics, the first comprehensive quantum theory. This theoretical framework underpins the Standard Model of particle physics, which CERN tests have proven.

Heisenberg's conceptual shift hinged on eliminating electron orbits. The idea that electrons followed definite pathways was becoming increasingly troublesome before 1925. Heisenberg's claim that these orbits were unobservable and meaningless allowed a probabilistic explanation of quantum states. This altered our view of reality and observation and broke with classical determinism. He deliberately abandoned intuition to construct a theory based on experimentally proven quantities. Some considered this a “fruitful error” because it forced him to calculate only available quantities.

He developed his idea based on several essential assumptions:

Classical mechanics fails at the atomic level.

Any new theory must agree with classical mechanics to meet Bohr's Correspondence principle in the limit of enormous quantum numbers.

Heisenberg's hypothesis: Kinematics' failure caused the difficulties, not mechanics. Kinematic quantities like position ‘x’ must be reinterpreted, but equations of motion like Newton’s law should remain. His “most fundamental quantisation axiom” and “single most powerful insight” were considered.

He replaced classical amplitudes and resonance frequencies in Fourier series with quantum transitional frequencies and amplitudes. Although Born had asserted otherwise, this was a major breakthrough.

“Multiplication features”: Heisenberg inferred from his speculations that the new quantum quantities possessed matrix multiplication, which Born identified.

Close hypothesis: Deducing the diagonal elements of the commutator revealed that his “algebra” lacked a rule.

The Born-Jordan-Heisenberg quantum rule: [q˂, p˂ ] = ih˄1˂ was the key discovery of Heisenberg's July 1925 study, as articulated by Born and Jordan. This empirical rule remains valid, where q̂ and p̂ are non-commuting Hermitian operators (formerly known as matrices). Max Born had his gravestone engraved with this discovery.

Despite its century-long empirical success and predictive potential, quantum theory's interpretation remains unanswered, generating philosophical and theoretical controversy. The wavefunction's mathematical tool, statistical description, or actuality, and how the observer and measuring technique collapse it, are unknown. Not only academic concerns, these affect quantum technology development and understanding.

QM: Beyond Heisenberg and Einstein's Riddle

A recent “centenary reappraisal” of Heisenberg's quantum mechanics aims to explain the Born-Jordan-Heisenberg canonical quantisation rule and his driving intuitions. This reexamination also examines Albert Einstein's Quantum Riddle, which he claimed inspired the Born-Jordan-Heisenberg quantisation rule.

One intriguing possibility in the reassessment is that d'Alembert's principle impacted Heisenberg's intuition. This concept states that dynamical motion is balanced when inertia is included.

The theory suggests that quantum mechanics requires new kinematic objects (operators) to re-establish the equilibrium principle ∑ (F̂n −mn̂n) · δR̂n = 0. If Heisenberg had known this, the measurement postulates and quantum reality theories contested by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen may have been quite different, if not prevented. A variational principle with a “kinematic constraint function” may be the source of the quantum rule, according to this re-foundation.

Since theoretical understandings from a century ago are now being applied, quantum technology has a noticeable impact. Quantum sensors increase environmental monitoring, materials research, and medical diagnostics by using quantum states' sensitivity.

Quantum simulations allow complex systems and difficult environments to be represented without traditional computation, which benefits basic scientific study, drug development, and materials discovery. Quantum News aims to help companies and researchers use quantum technology to solve problems in material science, artificial intelligence, finance, and cryptography.