Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement

✍ Scribed by Alisa Bokulich, Gregg Jaeger

• Publisher: CUP
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Edition: draft
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement
......Page 1
Copyright
......Page 4
Contents
......Page 7
Contributors
......Page 9
Preface
......Page 11
Introduction
......Page 13
I Quantum entanglement and non-locality......Page 31
1 Non-locality beyond quantum mechanics......Page 33
2 Entanglement and subsystems, entanglement beyond subsystems, and all that......Page 46
3 Formalism locality in quantum theory and quantum gravity......Page 74
II Quantum probability......Page 93
4 Bell’s inequality from the contextual probabilistic viewpoint......Page 95
5 Probabilistic theories: What is special about Quantum Mechanics?......Page 115
6 What probabilities tell about quantum systems, with application to entropy and entanglement......Page 157
7 Bayesian updating and information gain in quantum measurements......Page 181
III Quantum information......Page 199
8 Schumacher information and the philosophy of physics......Page 201
9 From physics to information theory and back......Page 211
10 Information, immaterialism, instrumentalism: Old and new in quantum information......Page 238
IV Quantum communication and computing......Page 259
11 Quantum computation: Where does the speed-up come from?......Page 261
12 Quantum mechanics, quantum computing, and quantum cryptography......Page 277
Index......Page 304