About the Nature of Quantum Information

Proceedings

article

Olimpia Lombardi¹ 

[1] Institute of Philosophy, CONICET and University of Buenos Aires

关键词: Shannon information;    quantum information;    information source;    coding theorems;    Shannon entropy;    von Neumann entropy;    transposition of signals;    communications of messages;    fidelity of transposition;    effectiveness of communication;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2022081027

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Although the interpretation of the concept of information is not clear, even in the classical framework, new interpretive problems have arisen with the advent of the so-called quantum information, which combine the difficulties in understanding the concept of information with the well-known foundational puzzles derived from quantum mechanics itself. The aim of this paper is to consider some arguments traditionally put forward to support the idea that quantum information is qualitatively different from classical information. The final conclusion is that there are no reasons to admit the existence of quantum information as qualitatively different from classical information: there is only one kind of information, physically neutral, which can be encoded by means of classical or quantum states.

【 授权许可】

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