John Baez

Quantum Field Theory Seminar, Mathematics Institute, University of Oxford, March 4, 2014

Seminario de Categorías UNAM, October 7, 2020

Fock Space Techniques for Stochastic Physics

Some ideas from quantum theory are beginning to percolate back to classical probability theory. For example, the master equation for a chemical reaction network — also known as a stochastic Petri net — describes particle interactions in a stochastic rather than quantum way. If we look at this equation from the perspective of quantum theory, this formalism turns out to involve creation and annihilation operators, coherent states and other well-known ideas — but with a few big differences.

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For more details, try this free book:

• John Baez and Jacob Biamonte, A Course on Quantum Techniques for Stochastic Mechanics.

• John Baez, Quantum techniques for reaction networks.
• John Baez and Brendan Fong, Quantum techniques for studying equilibrium in reaction networks.

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