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A Recent Exchange

Dear Mitchell, I remember your name from my readings since some time ago! It's an honor that you've contacted me! In re: chemistry -- I don't hope for anything that revolutionary (as far as reworking all of that goes)! I hope for more accurate descriptions of molecules beyond the Hydrogen atom (ha--maybe!) I appreciate your long letter! I am not Michael Nielsen's wife, although it delights me to be mistaken as such, I am just a very ambitious graduate student from Kansas who has been in dialogue with physicists around the country for some time (since I was an ambitious high schooler). I will take some time to read your comments and think deeply about each one -- I just want you to be sure that I do not think I am going to fix all of chemistry -- maybe model a few things more accurately beyond hydrogen if that has not been done yet (perhaps I am working off of outdated research; it was my understanding Schrodinger's modes of the atom only worked ...

Quanglebits and my Hopf Fiber Obsession

Background: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Hopf+fibration Project A: Towards defining a unit measure of quantum information, a quanglebit, written as a Hopf bundle over a Bloch hypersphere in complex space, which unlike the qubit is sensitive to quantum entanglement and could contain entanglement information. (There is past work to cite here that goes so far as mentioning the Bloch sphere and qubits and that the Hopf fibration is a way to redo the qubit, but does not redefine a new measure of information -- I think it is crucial at this point to redefine our measure of quantum information and get away from the limitations of the qubit structure, which is not easy to describe entanglement therewith.) Beginning date of project: 2013 (with many breaks). While hardly trivial, not a difficult project.  Project B : Redefining the fields [EM and QFT] and Schrodinger on the Hopf fiber bundle (approximate beginning date of project: June 2008). 

Hopf bundle

My favorite fiber bundle....