Quantum information theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics / Christopher G. Timpson.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford philosophical monographsOxford : Clarendon Press, 2013Edition: first editionDescription: xiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780198748137 :
- 0199296464
- QC174.12 .T56 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-284) and index.
Introduction -- What is information? -- Quantum information theory -- Case study : teleportation -- The Deutsch-Hayden approach : nonlocality, entanglement, and information flow -- Quantum computation and the Church-Turing hypothesis -- Information and the foundations of quantum mechanics : preliminaries -- Some information-theoretic approaches -- Quantum Bayesianism 1 : the proposal -- Quantum Bayesianism 2 : challenges -- Conclusions -- [Appendix] A. A review of the quantum formalism -- [Appendix] B. Generalized uncertainty measures : Uffink's axioms.
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