In-Detail Series (IDS)

Solving various problems in-detail for fun.

Most of the work that I perform in research goes unpublished. I would like not to give a precise percentage, but a lot of the ideas generated in the scientific endeavor yield no significant breakthrough. Lots are negative results and/or limitations of the techniques used just do not provide sufficient insight into the problem at hand. In this process of using different ways to attack a problem, a lot of work is performed that never gets written down and properly contextualized. Therefore, this series tries to provide an account of methods and problems that have not yielded significant enough scientific merit to warrant a standalone publication.

Over the years, I’ve realized that my approach to science is mostly constructive. In particular, starting from basic principles construct a theory or a coherent story about a particular subject. Therefore, this project is an attempt at practicing my constructive approach. Hopefully, in this way, I provide useful scientific content to others.

I would like to think these series are something similar to the blogs of the mathematician Terence Tao (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/), physicists Scott Aronson (https://scottaaronson.blog/) and Brian Skinner (https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/). However, my stories provide technical formulas and plotted graphs which I always struggle to work into a blog post, therefore I use Latex to generate a coherent and cohesive document. Maybe in the future, I shall expand to a blog post, but for now, I see this format working for me.

Here is the list of problems solved.

  1. Kink W state magic derivation : IDS001. Related to the publication Complexity of frustration a new source of non-local non-stabilizerness

  2. Entanglement link representation : IDS002.

  3. Kolmogorov complexity in quantum information : IDS003.

Jovan Odavić
Jovan Odavić
Postdoctoral researcher