Vlatko Vedral

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I’m Vlatko,

I am the Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Oxford.

I spend a lot of my time thinking about what quantum mechanics actually means, and how it affects everything and everyone around us.

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My new book

Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics

For the last century, physics has been treading along the paths set by the same two theories – quantum theory and general relativity – and, let’s face it, it’s getting pretty boring. Most scientists are simply chasing decimal points in laboratories, unable to explore the theories at large scales, where serious discrepancies could emerge.

Publication date: October 25 2025

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On Screen

What Started the Big Bang? | Whitelist Podcast
This Quantum Gravity Experiment Will Rewrite Physics | Quantum Foundations Podcast with Dr. Maria Violaris
Decoding quantum reality at The Royal Institution

My Blog

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Quantum physics is relative too

It’s very popular these days to emphasise differences between quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Some people even maintain that some of these are irreconcilable, which is why – or so proponents of this view maintain – we will not be able to quantize gravity (gravity being captured by the general theory of relativity).

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Constrained or Unconstrained Quantum?

I’ve noticed something interesting a while ago, but I haven’t had a chance to blog about it yet. And I probably still wouldn’t have, but I was awakened from my incredibly comfortable lazy state (at least as far as blogging is concerned) by a recent Nature editorial on the interpretations of quantum physics.

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Physics Does Not Need Observers

Nothing in physics requires observers. This belief creates artificial problems like quantum measurement paradoxes. Physical systems are sufficient “observers” – entanglement does the work traditionally attributed to observation.

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In Print

Observation of the quantum equivalence principle for matter-waves

Einstein’s general theory of relativity is based on the principle of equivalence – in essence, dating back to Galileo – which asserts that, locally, the effect of a gravitational field is equivalent to that of an accelerating reference frame, so that the local gravitational field is eliminated in a freely falling frame.

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Geometry from quantum temporal correlations

In this work, we show how Euclidean 3-space uniquely emerges from the structure of quantum temporal correlations associated with sequential measurements of Pauli observables on a single qubit.

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Thermodynamic limits of the Mpemba effect: A unified resource theory analysis

The Mpemba effect, a counterintuitive thermodynamic phenomenon in which a hotter system cools more rapidly than a colder one, has been observed in both classical and quantum systems.

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Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics
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Modern Foundations Of Quantum Optics
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Introductory Quantum Physics And Relativity
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Solid State Quantum Information
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Introduction to Quantum Information Science
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Decoding Reality
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