Teaching quantum information science to high-school students
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Personally, I love the sentiment behind this. It's great that there are people who are trying to make such an exciting field accessible. That being said, the importance of learning high level math cannot be understated. If students want to pursue anything impactful in physics, they require an extensive background in mathematics. If they try to learn about the current research of the field, the math in the papers will be extremely intimidating (I say this from experience!).
I think a more valuable thing to do would to make it easier to learn high level math (topology, abstract algebra) as math serves as the basis for physics. On that note, that seems like it would be an exciting project for me to embark on, with my perspective!
I agree with you in general that one needs to learn serious math to advance in physics, but it's always exciting to see university-level physics simplified for the high school audience. Matrix QM is uniquely good candidate since it only requires knowledge of linear algebra (see for example Figure 6, at the bottom of page 4 here https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/conceptmap.pdf#pa... ).
Foot note: I acknowledge Quantum Computing is just a subfield of QIS, but the abstract only talks about IBM Q and quantum algorithms.
Also, I don't this think we're alone thinking QC is overhyped, this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961967 links to a report by NAS that is rather lukewarm if not cold on the prospects.
That reading lead to me going up from the lowest math set to the top one but I wonder if I am over-read but not intelligent enough to have been allowed to study it on the natural progression. I was the only student in my class to display (publicly) any intuition or passion but I probably got some of the worst results.
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