UID:
almahu_9948234134802882
Format:
1 online resource (xxx, 277 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511676550 (ebook)
Content:
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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Quantum entanglement and non-locality:
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Non-locality beyond quantum mechanics /
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Entanglement and subsystems, entanglement beyond subsystems, and all that /
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Formalism locality in quantum theory and quantum gravity /
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Quantum probability:
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Bell's inequality from the contextual probabilistic viewpoint /
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Probabilistic theories: what is special about quantum mechanics? /
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What probabilities tell about quantum systems, with application to entropy and entanglement /
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Bayesian updating and information gain in quantum measurements /
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Quantum information:
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Schumacher information and the philosophy of physics /
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From physics to information theory and back /
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Information, immaterialism, and instrumentalism: old and new in quantum information /
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Quantum communication and computing:
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Quantum computation: where does the speed-up come from? /
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Quantum mechanics, quantum computing and quantum cryptography
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521898768
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676550
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