[OT] Quantum Python (Re: Properties fun with 2.2)

Fernando Pérez fperez528 at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 23 14:13:56 EST 2001


Boris Borcic wrote:

 
> In any case, an example toy-modelling Heisenberg's uncertainty
> principle looks like a must. Rules over the consistency
> of value mimicking the behavior of complementary
> QM observables before enchanted student eyes...
> 

Neat idea. I think though that you don't need py2.2 for that. You could play 
nice games with __getattr__ already and a random number generator: attributes 
whose values only exist when measured.

Granted, the syntactic sugar of 2.2 (for this it's sugar, I know for other 
things its deep and true) makes it easier, but it can be done in 2.1, I think.

I might play around with a QuantumCat class tomorrow, sounds like fun :) On a 
more serious note, it might be instructive for intro quantum courses for 
things like simple two-level systems or spin polarization problems. I keep 
thinking of a neat computational physics course in python, this would be a 
cool toy problem to include.

Merry Xmas,

f.



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