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The Quantum Mindset and the
Physics of Change
Acacia Group Los Angeles CA 19 Mar 2022
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan, MBA, PhD
Quantum Technologies
Centre for Blockchain Technologies
University College London

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19 Mar 2022
Quantum Mindset
Change
 Problem: lack of resources for thinking about change
 Change: the act of becoming different (before-after temporality)
 Method: obtain building blocks from various fields
 Philosophy
 Quantum physics
 Clinical neuroscience
 Financial markets
 Result: distill a composite theory of change
 Quantum Mindset: a two-cultures tool (arts and sciences) that
can be productively deployed to contemplate change
 Nietzschean acceptance of uncertainty, quantum physics Floquet
engineering of time as any system parameter, Black Swan thinking
of outsized events occurring with frequency
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“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”
– Karr, 1849, Les Guêpes (The Wasps)
“The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing”

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Philosophy
 Badiou-Derrida: the event (different afterwards)
 French revolution, bomb, 9/11, moon landing, DNA
 Hegel: amalgamation of events is history (shapes of spirit)
 Foucault: power-determined knowledge eras (epistemes)
 Deleuze-Baudrillard (French philosophies of difference):
 Distinguish between appearance and reality
 Kant: time-space goggles are the synthetic a priori
transcendental condition of any experience
 Bergson: doubled internal “deep time, deep change”
 Nietzsche: embrace uncertainty; adopt an historical
philosophizing that is both in time and beyond our time
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Quantum Mindset
Quantum physics
 Time reversibility
 Trajectory history available before collapsed in measurement
 Unlike macroscale of broken egg or milk poured into coffee
 Out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs)
 Evolve a system to earlier or later time to apply an action
 Floquet engineering
 Direct a periodic system to avoid or enter phase transition
 Time entanglement (greater multiplicity than spatial)
 Chaos (time regimes of ballistic spread followed by saturation)
 Quantum walks for faster search and heightened cryptosecurity
 Quantum neuroscience: seizure has chaotic dynamics
 Normal resting state: Floquet-like periodic cycles
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Quantum Mindset
Probability
 A particle (or superpositioned data
modeled by quantum product
managers in today’s corporations)
 Literally exists in all possible states
simultaneously before being collapsed
in a measurement
 Einstein “God does not play dice”
 However, probabilistic nature of
quantum reality proven
 Double-slit experiment (light behaves
simultaneously as particle and wave)
 Entangled particles
 Superpositioned states
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Quantum System:
Exists in every possible
state of 0 and 1 until
collapsed in measurement
Classical System:
Always in a state of
either 0 or 1
Source: Piazza, L., Lummen, T.T.A, Quinonez, E. et al. (2015). Simultaneous observation of the quantization and the
interference pattern of a plasmonic near-field. Nature Communications. 6(6407):107.

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Probability
 Probability: predict the possibility of
change happening, the likelihood of
uncertain future events occurring
 Medical diagnosis and treatment
 Crop failure
 Speculation
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Normal (Gaussian) Distribution Fat-tailed (Black Swan) Distribution Drug-dosing Based on S-Curves
Source: Taleb, N.N. (2001). Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. (2007). The Black
Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. New York: Random House.

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Quantum Mindset
Neuroscience and Markets
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Sources: Breakspear, M. (2017). Dynamic models of large-scale brain activity. Nat Neurosci. 20:340-52. Taleb, N.N. (2001). Fooled
by Randomness. (2007). The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. New York: Random House.
Black-Scholes Model
 Neuroscience
 Seizure: chaotic dynamics
 Resting state: Floquet-like periodicity
 Markets
 Critique of Black Scholes option pricing
with normal distribution assumptions

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Quantum Mindset
The Quantum Mindset
 The Quantum Mindset: thinking in terms of quantum
properties to solve problems
 Superposition: literally co-existing realities before collapsed
 Superpositioned data modeling (all possible system states tested
simultaneously); quantum product manager (Gartner)
 Quantum machine learning (unsupervised learning using Born
machine not Boltzmann machine)
 Develop standardized quantum circuits (e.g. neural signaling)
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Classical System
(0/1 bits)
Quantum System
(complex-valued qubits
on a Bloch sphere)
Domain Properties Definition
Quantum
Matter
Symmetry Looking the same from different points of view (e.g. a face, cube, laws of physics);
symmetry breaking is phase transition
Topology Geometric structure preserved under deformation (bending, stretching, twisting, and
crumpling, but not cutting or gluing); doughnut and coffee cup both have a hole
Quantum
Information
Superposition An unobserved particle exists in all possible states simultaneously, but once measured,
collapses to just one state (superpositioned data modeling of all possible states)
Entanglement Particles connected such that their states are related, even when separated by distance
(a “tails-up/tails-down” relationship; one particle in one state, other in the other)
Interference Waves reinforcing or canceling each other out (cohering or decohering)

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The Quantum Mindset Theory of Change
 A multidisciplinary theory of change
 Nietzschean acceptance of uncertainty
 Quantum Floquet engineering of time as any system feature
 Black Swan higher-frequency outsized events
 Flexible performative attitude towards non-intuitive
concepts, informed by the quantum domain
 Macroscale-theory of change: a more flexible, malleable,
probabilistic interface with reality, change becomes less rigid
 The idea of manipulating quantum system properties in
which time, space, and dynamics (change) are all just
parameters provides an empowering frame for the
acceptance of change
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The Quantum Mindset and the
Physics of Change
Acacia Group Los Angeles CA 19 Mar 2022
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan, MBA, PhD
Quantum Technologies
Centre for Blockchain Technologies
University College London
Thank you!
Questions?

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Quantum Mindset
The Quantum Mindset in everyday use
 Heisenberg uncertainty principle
 A particle’s speed or location can be known, but not both
 Police officer: “Sir, do you know how fast you were going?”
 Heisenberg: “No, but I know where I am”
 Schrödinger’s cat states and superposition
 Multiple states literally coexist before collapsed in measurement
 Police officer: (inspecting trunk): “Sir, did you know there is a dead cat?”
 Schrödinger: “Well, now I do” (Gartner: corporate hiring of physicists)
 Einstein: E=mc2 and no “spooky action at a distance”
 Energy is equal to mass x the speed of light squared, no FTL
 True, faster-than-light travel does not allow one particle to influence
another, but entanglement is the proven explanation
 Heads-tails relationships between particles, used in the quantum
teleportation of cryptographic keys for secure login
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