PBS
Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
Quantum computing is cool, but you know what would be extra awesome - a quantum internet. In fact if we want the first we’ll need the latter. And the first step to the quantum internet is quantum cryptography.
MinutePhysics
How Shor's Algorithm Factors 314191
This video explains how Shor’s Algorithm factors the pseudoprime number 314191 into its prime factors using a quantum computer. The quantum computation relies on the number-theoretic analysis of the factoring problem via modular...
SciShow
IDTIMWYTIM Schrodingers Cat
"I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means" examines scientific theories that have taken on a life of their own in popular culture & we help you understand what they really mean in scientific terms. Today we take on Schrodinger's...
MinutePhysics
Solution to the Grandfather Paradox
If you could travel back in time, and you killed your grandfather, would you be killing your future self? What do physics, complexity theory, and computer science have to say about this famous murderous time-travel paradox?
SciShow
Quantum Supremacy: When Will Quantum Computers Be a Thing?
In 2019, Google announced that they had achieved quantum supremacy - but what does that mean? And does it even matter?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work - Chiara Decaroli
Get to know the unique properties of quantum computers and the obstacles that have prevented this theoretical technology from becoming a reality. -- Quantum computers could eventually outstrip the computational limits of classical...
SciShow
Studying the Brain with... Quantum Mechanics?
Quantum mechanics may not seem like it has anything to do with human psychology, but some psychologists are starting to borrow concepts from the field to help make human behavior more predictable.
SciShow
Schrödinger's iPad? New Breakthroughs in Quantum Computing
Two developments in quantum computing in the past couple of weeks are the harbingers of a whole new era of smart technology. Google announced that it's building a quantum computer designed by a company called D-Wave in partnership with...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Schrodinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, what will be the state...
SciShow
The Quantum Theory that Connects the Entire Universe
Quantum mechanics is weird and seems a bit...complicated. But understanding it can help us to understand the universe.
MinutePhysics
Hardy's Paradox | Quantum Double Double Slit Experiment
This video is about Hardy's Paradox, wherein an electron and positron (or photons polarized horizontally and vertically) pass through Mach-Zehnder interferometers that overlap such that the particles have a chance of annihilating. If...
MinutePhysics
2012 Nobel Prize - How Do We See Light
What was the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics given for? Capturing a single photon of light!
Bozeman Science
Law of Superposition
Mr. Andersen explains the law of superposition and the principle of original horizontality. He uses an animation to explain how rock layers can accumulate over time.
MinutePhysics
Footnote †: Double Pendulums Are Crazy
A footnote to the video about Neutrino Shape-Shifting: https://youtu.be/7fgKBJDMO54 Sixty Symbols Video on Double Pendulum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy4a5erom8 Physics of The Double Pendulum:...
Bozeman Science
Wave Superposition
In this video Paul Andersen explains how waves interact when moving through one another. Unlike particles waves can interfere both constructively and destructively. The amount of interference is determined through the superposition...
Bozeman Science
Wave Interference
In this video Paul Andersen explains how waves interact with objects and with other waves. When a wave hits a fixed object it will be reflected and inverted. When a wave hits a free object it will be reflected without being inverted....
PBS
The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
Is our universe a definitive single reality or is it merely one within an infinitely branching multiverse?
Curated Video
How to Build Quantum Computer?
In this representation I discuss the main principles of quantum mechanics behind the quantum computer. and How to build a device that can manipulate the energy operator of the Schrodinger Equation for an electron to change its spin from...
Curated Video
How to Program Quantum Computer?
In this part we build three quantum computers that can process simple commands by manipulating the Energy Operators in Schrodinger Equation. Solving NOT gate by quantum computing, Solving Controlled NOT gate by quantum computing
Flipping Physics
2017 #5 Free Response Question - AP Physics 1 - Exam Solution
My solutions to Free Response Question #5 from the 2017 AP Physics 1 Exam. This is a mechanical waves question which requires you to determine the velocity of a specific point on a wave and predict the shape of two waves which interfere...
Flipping Physics
AP Physics 1: Review of Mechanical Waves
Review of the Mechanical Waves topics covered in the AP Physics 1 curriculum.
Looking Glass Universe
EPR Paradox and Entanglement Quantum Mechanics
The EPR paradox tries to prove that quantum mechanics is wrong.
Looking Glass Universe
Quantum Entanglement and the EPR Paradox
What is entanglement really? And why is it that its a uniquely quantum phenomena? Bohmian mechanics stuff: In Bohmian mechanics, you still have superpositions, they just mean something very different. A Bohmian mech particle only has one...
Curated Video
Quantum Entanglement: Explained in REALLY SIMPLE Words
Quantum entanglement is a physical resource, like energy, that is possible between quantum systems. When a coin spins on a flat surface, it’s in a state of superposition between its two faces—head and tails. Similarly, electrons in their...