Christopher G. Timpson

Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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Produktbeschreibung

Christopher G. Timpson provides the first full-length philosophical treatment of quantum information theory and the questions it raises for our understanding of the quantum world. He argues for an ontologically deflationary account of the nature of quantum information, which is grounded in a revisionary analysis of the concepts of information.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Philosophical Monograph
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780199296460
• ISBN-10: 0199296464
• Artikelnr.: 37085666

Autorenporträt

Christopher G. Timpson read Physics and Philosophy as an undergraduate at Queen's College, Oxford, before going on to take the BPhil and DPhil in philosophy there. His DPhil thesis concerned philosophical aspects of quantum information theory. He then taught for three years at the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Division of History and Philosophy of Science, before taking up a Tutorial Fellowship and CUF Lectureship at Brasenose College, Oxford in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: What is Information?
* 3: Quantum Information Theory
* 4: Case Study: Teleportation
* 5: The Deutsch-Hayden Approach: Nonlocality, Entanglement, and
Information Flow
* 6: Quantum Computation and the Church-Turing Hypothesis
* 7: Information and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics:
Preliminaries
* 8: Some Information-Theoretic Approaches
* 9: Quantum Bayesianism 1: The Proposal
* 10: Quantum Bayesianism 2: Challenges
* 11: Conclusions
* A: A Review of the Quantum Formalism
* B: Generalized Uncertainty Measures: Uffink's Axioms
* Bibliography
* Index