Introduction: Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Foundations

Quantum Information Theory and The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

of Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis is a contribution to the debate on the implications of quantum information theory for the foundational problems of quantum mechanics. In Part I an attempt is made to shed some light on the nature of information and quantum information theory. It is emphasized that the everyday notion of information is to be firmly distinguis...

Introduction to quantum information theory

My name is Michael Nielsen, and I work at the University of Queensland on quantum information theory, which is the subject of my talk today. It’s part of a larger subject known as quantum information science, which is being investigated by many people at the University of Queensland as part of the activities of the Center for Quantum Computer Technology. Technical work on quantum information ge...

Introduction to Quantum Information Theory

Quantum computation and information studies how information is encoded in nature according to the laws of quantum mechanics and what this means for its computational power. In this note, we present a short and rather schematic introduction to quantum information theory by drawing comparisons to classical probability theory. For more details on quantum information theory and computation we refer...

Introduction to Quantum Information Theory

Introduction to Quantum Logical Information Theory

Logical information theory is the quantitative version of the logic of partitions just as logical probability theory is the quantitative version of the dual Boolean logic of subsets. The resulting notion of information is about distinctions, differences, and distinguishability, and is formalized as the distinctions of a partition (a pair of points distinguished by the partition). All the defini...