Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Information Theory

Authored by: Chris Timpson

The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics

Print publication date:  October  2008
Online publication date:  November  2016

Print ISBN: 9780754655183
eBook ISBN: 9781315612676
Adobe ISBN: 9781317044321

10.4324/9781315612676.ch4

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Abstract

While quantum information theory is one of the most lively, up-and-coming new areas of research in physics, its central concerns have long been familiar. They are simply those that have lain close to the heart of anyone interested in the foundations of quantum mechanics, since its inception: How does the quantum world differ from the classical one?

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