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We recently got a few questions like:

1. What is the "CP" operation in the context of anti-particles?

2. How can blackholes be fast information scramblers?

It should be quite obvious that these are not directly related to quantum computing or quantum information theory. I have no problems if users want to ask such questions to quantum information theorists or the quantum computing folks. Being too restrictive in the beta stage might actually be counter-productive. I myself had gotten an excellent answer to my question What is the use of categorical quantum mechanics?, which, in hindsight, isn't directly related to those either of those fields.

But, I can also empathize with those who do feel that Physics Stack Exchange would be a better home for such questions. Since we currently do not have any community consensus on this, I would suggest using a custom close reason like:

This question, in its current form, does not appear to be about quantum computing or quantum information theory and is thus off-topic here. It might be better suited for [physics.se]. If you feel otherwise, please [edit] the question to clarify.

(By the way, [physics.se] and [edit] written with square brackets are magic links ;)

It may not be possible for the moderators to officially add this as a close reason, without requesting the Stack Exchange devs to set up a migration path. Moreover, migration paths are usually set up when regular migrations occur from one site to site, and that is quite rare for beta sites like ours. So, for the time being, if you come across such questions, you can use simply create a custom close reason like the one I mentioned above by clicking on Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong). Subsequently, if 4 other users vote to close using the manual option created by you, it will be put on hold.

Related: Add more options for which SE a question should migrate to when closing

We recently got a few questions like:

1. What is the "CP" operation in the context of anti-particles?

2. How can blackholes be fast information scramblers?

It should be quite obvious that these are not directly related to quantum computing or quantum information theory. I have no problems if users want to ask such questions to quantum information theorists or the quantum computing folks. Being too restrictive in the beta stage might actually be counter-productive. I myself had gotten an excellent answer to my question What is the use of categorical quantum mechanics?, which, in hindsight, isn't directly related to those either of those fields.

But, I can also empathize with those who do feel that Physics Stack Exchange would be a better home for such questions. Since we currently do not have any community consensus on this, I would suggest using a custom close reason like:

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic. In its current form, it does not appear to be about quantum computing or quantum information and is thus off-topic here. It might be better suited for [physics.se]. If you feel otherwise, please [edit] the question to clarify.

(By the way, [physics.se] and [edit] written with square brackets are magic links ;)

It may not be possible for the moderators to officially add this as a close reason, without requesting the Stack Exchange devs to set up a migration path. Moreover, migration paths are usually set up when regular migrations occur from one site to site, and that is quite rare for beta sites like ours. So, for the time being, if you come across such questions, you can use simply create a custom close reason like the one I mentioned above by clicking on Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong). Subsequently, if 4 other users vote to close using the manual option created by you, it will be put on hold.

Related: Add more options for which SE a question should migrate to when closing

We recently got a few questions like:

1. What is the "CP" operation in the context of anti-particles?

2. How can blackholes be fast information scramblers?

It should be quite obvious that these are not directly related to quantum computing or quantum information theory. I have no problems if users want to ask such questions to quantum information theorists or the quantum computing folks. Being too restrictive in the beta stage might actually be counter-productive. I myself had gotten an excellent answer to my question What is the use of categorical quantum mechanics?, which, in hindsight, isn't directly related to those either of those fields.

But, I can also empathize with those who do feel that Physics Stack Exchange would be a better home for such questions. Since we currently do not have any community consensus on this, I would suggest using a custom close reason like:

This question, in its current form, does not appear to be about quantum computing or quantum information theory and is thus off-topic here. It might be better suited for [physics.se]. If you feel otherwise, please [edit] the question to clarify.

(By the way, [physics.se] and [edit] written with square brackets are magic links ;)

It may not be possible for the moderators to officially add this as a close reason, without requesting the Stack Exchange devs to set up a migration path. Moreover, migration paths are usually set up when regular migrations occur from one site to site, and that is quite rare for beta sites like ours. So, for the time being, if you come across such questions, you can use simply create a custom close reason like the one I mentioned above by clicking on Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong). Subsequently, if 4 other users close vote using the manual option created by you, it will be put on hold.

Related: Add more options for which SE a question should migrate to when closing

We recently got a few questions like:

1. What is the "CP" operation in the context of anti-particles?

2. How can blackholes be fast information scramblers?

It should be quite obvious that these are not directly related to quantum computing or quantum information theory. I have no problems if users want to ask such questions to quantum information theorists or the quantum computing folks. Being too restrictive in the beta stage might actually be counter-productive. I myself had gotten an excellent answer to my question What is the use of categorical quantum mechanics?, which, in hindsight, isn't directly related to those either of those fields.

But, I can also empathize with those who do feel that Physics Stack Exchange would be a better home for such questions. Since we currently do not have any community consensus on this, I would suggest using a custom close reason like:

This question, in its current form, does not appear to be about quantum computing or quantum information theory and is thus off-topic here. It might be better suited for [physics.se]. If you feel otherwise, please [edit] the question to clarify.

(By the way, [physics.se] and [edit] written with square brackets are magic links ;)

It may not be possible for the moderators to officially add this as a close reason, without requesting the Stack Exchange devs to set up a migration path. Moreover, migration paths are usually set up when regular migrations occur from one site to site, and that is quite rare for beta sites like ours. So, for the time being, if you come across such questions, you can use simply create a custom close reason like the one I mentioned above by clicking on Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong). Subsequently, if 4 other users vote to close using the manual option created by you, it will be put on hold.

Related: Add more options for which SE a question should migrate to when closing

We recently got a few questions like:

1. What is the "CP" operation in the context of anti-particles?

2. How can blackholes be fast information scramblers?

It should be quite obvious that these are not directly related to quantum computing or quantum information theory. I have no problems if users want to ask such questions to quantum information theorists or the quantum computing folks. Being too restrictive in the beta stage might actually be counter-productive. I myself had gotten an excellent answer to my question What is the use of categorical quantum mechanics?, which, in hindsight, isn't directly related to those either of those fields.

But, I can also empathize with those who do feel that Physics Stack Exchange would be a better home for such questions. Since we currently do not have any community consensus on this, I would suggest adding a custom close reason like:

This question, in its current form, does not appear to be about quantum computing or quantum information theory and is thus off-topic here. It might be better suited for [physics.se]. If you feel otherwise, please [edit] the question to clarify.

(By the way, [physics.se] and [edit] written with square brackets are magic links ;)

It may not be possible for the moderators to officially add this as a close reason, without requesting the Stack Exchange devs to set up a migration path. Moreover, migration paths are usually set up when regular migrations occur from one site to site, and that is quite rare for beta sites like ours. So, for the time being, if you come across such questions, you can use simply make a custom close reason like the one I mentioned above by clicking on Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong). Subsequently, if 4 other users close vote using the manual option created by you, it will be put on hold.

Related: Add more options for which SE a question should migrate to when closing

We recently got a few questions like:

1. What is the "CP" operation in the context of anti-particles?

2. How can blackholes be fast information scramblers?

It should be quite obvious that these are not directly related to quantum computing or quantum information theory. I have no problems if users want to ask such questions to quantum information theorists or the quantum computing folks. Being too restrictive in the beta stage might actually be counter-productive. I myself had gotten an excellent answer to my question What is the use of categorical quantum mechanics?, which, in hindsight, isn't directly related to those either of those fields.

But, I can also empathize with those who do feel that Physics Stack Exchange would be a better home for such questions. Since we currently do not have any community consensus on this, I would suggest using a custom close reason like:

This question, in its current form, does not appear to be about quantum computing or quantum information theory and is thus off-topic here. It might be better suited for [physics.se]. If you feel otherwise, please [edit] the question to clarify.

(By the way, [physics.se] and [edit] written with square brackets are magic links ;)

It may not be possible for the moderators to officially add this as a close reason, without requesting the Stack Exchange devs to set up a migration path. Moreover, migration paths are usually set up when regular migrations occur from one site to site, and that is quite rare for beta sites like ours. So, for the time being, if you come across such questions, you can use simply create a custom close reason like the one I mentioned above by clicking on Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong). Subsequently, if 4 other users close vote using the manual option created by you, it will be put on hold.

Related: Add more options for which SE a question should migrate to when closing