| 청구기호 |
QC174.12 -- .T56 2013eb |
| 형태사항 |
1 online resource (308 pages)
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| 총서명 |
Oxford Philosophical Monographs
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| 언어 |
English |
| 내용 |
Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is Information? -- 2.1 How to talk about information: Some simple ways -- 2.2 The Shannon Information and related concepts -- 2.2.1 Warming up -- 2.2.2 Formal development of the theory -- and the definition of Informationt -- 2.2.3 Information and Uncertainty -- 2.2.4 More on the communication channel -- 2.2.5 Mutual informationt and flow -- 2.3 Alternative approaches: Dretske and Semantic Naturalism -- 2.3.1 Dretske's information that -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 Quantum Information Theory -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bits and qubits -- 3.3 The no-cloning theorem -- 3.4 Entanglement-assisted communication -- 3.5 Quantum computers -- 3.6 What is quantum information? -- 3.6.1 Quantum sources: how much -- 3.6.2 Quantum sources: what -- 3.6.3 An objection: Jozsa's argument -- 3.7 The worldliness of quantum information -- 3.7.1 Information and the physical -- 3.8 Summary -- 4 Case Study: Teleportation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The quantum teleportation protocol -- 4.2.1 Some information-theoretic aspects of teleportation -- 4.3 The puzzles of teleportation -- 4.4 Resolving (dissolving) the problem -- 4.4.1 The simulation fallacy -- 4.5 The teleportation process under di.erent interpretations -- 4.5.1 Collapse interpretations: Dirac/von Neumann, GRW -- 4.5.2 No collapse and no extra values: Everett -- 4.5.3 No collapse, but extra values: Bohm -- 4.5.4 Ensemble and statistical viewpoints -- 4.6 Concluding remarks -- 5 The Deutsch-Hayden Approach: Nonlocality, Entanglement, and Information Flow -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Deutsch-Hayden Picture -- 5.2.1 Locality claim (2): Contiguity -- 5.3 Assessing the Claims to Locality -- 5.3.1 The Conservative Interpretation -- 5.3.2 The Ontological Interpretation -- 5.4 Information and Information Flow -- 5.4.1 Whereabouts of information.
5.4.2 Explaining informationt flow in teleportation: Locally accessible and inaccessible informationt -- 5.4.3 Assessing the claims for information flow -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 Quantum Computation and the Church-Turing Hypothesis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Quantum computation and containing information -- 6.3 The Turing Principle versus the Church-Turing Hypothesis -- 6.3.1 Non-Turing computability? The example of Malament- Hogarth spacetimes -- 6.3.2 Lessons -- 6.4 The Church-Turing Hypothesis as a constraint on physics? -- 6.5 Message -- 7 Information and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Preliminaries -- 7.1 Information Talk in Quantum Mechanics -- 8 Some Information-Theoretic Approaches -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Zeilinger's Foundational Principle -- 8.2.1 Word and world: Semantic ascent -- 8.2.2 Where next? -- 8.3 The Clifton-Bub-Halvorson characterization theorem -- 8.3.1 The setting -- 8.3.2 Some queries regarding the C*-algebraic starting point -- 8.3.3 Questions of Interpretation -- 8.4 Further Developments: Generalized Probability Theories -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9 Quantum Bayesianism 1: The Proposal -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Setting the Scene -- 9.2.1 An outline of the position -- 9.2.2 In more detail -- 9.2.3 From information to belief -- 9.2.4 Two hints -- 9.3 Not solipsism -- and not instrumentalism, either -- 9.4 Summary: The virtues -- 10 Quantum Bayesianism 2: Challenges -- 10.1 What's the ontology? -- 10.1.1 Objectivity and the classical level -- 10.1.2 Quantum states for classical objects -- 10.2 Troubles with explanation -- 10.3 Subjective probabilities -- 10.3.1 A Quantum Bayesian Moore's Paradox -- 10.3.2 The means/ends objection -- 10.4 Conclusions -- 11 Conclusions -- A: A Review of the Quantum Formalism -- A.1 Hilbert Space and Linear Operators -- A.2 States and Measurement.
B: Generalized Uncertainty Measures: Uffink's Axioms -- B.1 The Uncertainty Measures Ur(P,& -- #956 -- ) -- B.2 Uniqueness arguments for the Shannon Information -- B.3 Majorization and entropic criteria for entanglement -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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| 주제 |
Quantum theory..
Information theory.
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| 보유판 및 특별호 저록 |
Print version: Timpson, Christopher G. Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2013 9780199296460
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| ISBN |
9780191662904, 9780199296460
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