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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Recent work in quantum information science has produced a revolution in our understanding of quantum entanglement. Scientists now view entanglement as a physical resource with many important applications. These range from quantum computers, which would be able to compute exponentially faster than classical computers, to quantum cryptographic techniques, which could provide unbreakable codes for the transfer of secret information over public channels. These important advances in the study of quantum entanglement and information touch on deep foundational issues in both physics and philosophy. This interdisciplinary volume brings together fourteen of the world's leading physicists and philosophers of physics to address the most important developments and debates in this exciting area of research. It offers a broad spectrum of approaches to resolving deep foundational challenges - philosophical, mathematical, and physical - raised by quantum information, quantum processing, and entanglement. This book is ideal for historians, philosophers of science and physicists"--Provided by publisher. |
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"Entanglement can be understood as an extraordinary degree of correlation between states of quantum systems - a correlation that cannot be given an explanation in terms of something like a common cause. Entanglement can occur between two or more quantum systems, and the most interesting case is when these correlations occur between systems that are space-like separated, meaning that changes made to one system are immediately correlated with changes in a distant system even though there is no time for a signal to travel between them.1 In this case one says that quantum entanglement leads to non-local correlations, or non-locality. More precisely, entanglement can be defined in the following way"--Provided by publisher. |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- References -- Part I Quantum entanglement and non-locality -- 1 Non-locality beyond quantum mechanics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Non-local correlations beyond quantum mechanics -- 1.3 Communication complexity -- 1.4 Non-local computation -- 1.5 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Entanglement and subsystems, entanglement beyond subsystems, and all that -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Entanglement and subsystems: the standard view -- 2.3 Entanglement beyond subsystems: the concept of generalized entanglement -- 2.4 Generalized entanglement by example -- 2.5 Generalized entanglement: applications and implications (so far . . .) -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Formalism locality in quantum theory and quantum gravity -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Dealing with indefinite causal structure -- 3.3 How standard formulations of physical theories are not F-local -- 3.4 An outline of the causaloid framework -- 3.5 Formulating quantum theory in the causaloid framework -- 3.6 The road to quantum gravity -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Quantum probability -- 4 Bell's inequality from the contextual probabilistic viewpoint -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Measure-theoretical derivation of Bell-type inequalities -- 4.3 Formalization of rules for correspondence between classical and quantum statistical models -- 4.4 Von Neumann postulates on classicalquantum correspondence and the no-go theorem -- 4.5 Bell-type no-go theorems -- 4.6 The range-of-values postulate -- 4.7 Contextuality -- 4.8 Bell-contexuality and action at a distance -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Probabilistic theories: What is special about Quantum Mechanics? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 C-Algebra representation of probabilistic theories -- 5.3 Independent systems -- 5.4 Axiomatic interlude: exploring Postulates FAITHE and PURIFY -- 5.5 What is special about quantum mechanics as a probabilistic theory? -- 5.6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 What probabilities tell about quantum systems, with application to entropy and entanglement -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Parameter spaces and quantum models -- 6.3 Many quantum models of any PPM -- 6.4 Parameter spaces and PPMs associated with entangled states -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7 Bayesian updating and information gain in quantum measurements -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Bayesian conditionalization -- 7.3 Quantum measurement -- 7.4 Quantum measurement as Bayesian updating -- 7.5 Quantum measurement and information gain -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part III Quantum information -- 8 Schumacher information and the philosophy of physics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The CBH theorem -- 8.3 Quantum information -- 8.4 Re-conceiving quantum mechanics -- 8.5 Conclusion -- References -- 9 From physics to information theory and back -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Algebraic frameworks -- 9.3 The operational approach -- 9.4 The convex-set approach -- 9.5 The Spekkens toy theory -- 9.6 Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 10 Information, immaterialism, instrumentalism: Old and new in quantum information -- 10.1 Two thoughts -- 10.2 The quantum state as information -- T$2636. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Quantum theory -- Philosophy.
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Quantum theory -- Philosophy. |
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Quantum computing.
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Quantum computing. |
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Information theory.
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Information theory. |
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Electronic books.
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Bokulich, Alisa.
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Jaeger, Gregg.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Philosophy of quantum information and entanglement. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521898768 (DLC) 2010000125 (OCoLC)501180246 |
| ISBN |
9780511677748 (electronic book) |
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051167774X (electronic book) |
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9780521898768 (Cloth) |
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0521898765 (Cloth) |
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9780511682223 |
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0511682220 |
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9786612636943 |
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