Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement.
Addressing the most important developments and debates in this exciting area of research for historians, philosophers of science and physicists.
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; References; Part I Quantum entanglement and non-locality; 1 Non-locality beyond quantum mechanics; 2 Entanglement and subsystems, entanglement beyond subsystems, and all that; 3 Formalism locality in quantum theory and quantum gravity; Part II Quantum probability; 4 Bell's inequality from the contextual probabilistic viewpoint; 5 Probabilistic theories: What is special about Quantum Mechanics?; 6 What probabilities tell about quantum systems, with application to entropy and entanglement.
- 7 Bayesian updating and information gain in quantum measurementsPart III Quantum information; 8 Schumacher information and the philosophy of physics; 9 From physics to information theory and back; 10 Information, immaterialism, instrumentalism: Old and new in quantum information; Part IV Quantum communication and computing; 11 Quantum computation: Where does the speed-up come from?; 12 Quantum mechanics, quantum computing, and quantum cry.