Information and Fundamental Elements of the Structure of Quantum Theory
By Č. Brukner, Anton Zeilinger. 2002
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According to Aage Petersen Niels Bohr liked to say: “There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.” In an analogous way, von Weizsacker suggested that the notion of the elementary alternative, the “Ur”, should play a pivotal role when constructing physics. Both approaches suggest that the concept of information should play an essential role in the foundations of any scientific description of Nature. We show that if, in our description of Nature, we use one definite proposition per elementary constituent of Nature, some of the essential characteristics of quantum physics, such as the irreducible randomness of individual events, quantum complementary and quantum entanglement, arise in a natural way. Then quantum physics is an elementary theory of information.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physiology
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In Artificial Intelligence
- Roger Colbeck
- Klaas Landsman
- Terry Rudolph
- Č. Brukner
- B. Dakić
- Matthew S. Leifer
- Lucien Hardy
- Renato Renner
In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Roger Colbeck
- Matthew S. Leifer
- Klaas Landsman
- Terry Rudolph
- Č. Brukner
- B. Dakić
- Lucien Hardy
- Markus P. Mueller
In Physiology
- Klaas Landsman
- Roger Colbeck
- Terry Rudolph
- Matthew S. Leifer
- Lucien Hardy
- Markus P. Mueller
- L. Masanes
Citations in the corpus
- Quantum Theory and Beyond: Is Entanglement Special? (2009, background): “Candidates for foundational principles were proposed giving a basis for an understanding of quantum theory as a general theor y f information supplemented by several information-theor etic constraints [22, 23, 24, 25, 26].”
- Is the Quantum State Real? An Extended Review of -ontology Theorems (2014, background): “de Muynck [23], as well as the views of David Mermin [24], Asher Peres [25], and Brukner and Zeilinger [26].”