Information flow in entangled quantum systems

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2000.0585MaRDI QIDQ2713387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Deutsch, Patrick Hayden

Publication date 18 December 2001

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906007

zbMATH Keywords

Bell's theorem interpretationHeisenberg picturelocality propertynonlocal quantityquantum teleportationSchrödinger versus Heisenberg picture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum computation (81P68)

Abstract: All information in quantum systems is, notwithstanding Bell's theorem, localised. Measuring or otherwise interacting with a quantum system S has no effect on distant systems from which S is dynamically isolated, even if they are entangled with S. Using the Heisenberg picture to analyse quantum information processing makes this locality explicit, and reveals that under some circumstances (in particular, in Einstein-Podolski-Rosen experiments and in quantum teleportation) quantum information is transmitted through 'classical' (i.e. decoherent) information channels.

Review text

The discussion of the locality property in quantum theory has a long history. The reviewed paper also belongs to this topic. It is widely believed that information in quantum systems would be a nonlocal quantity. This means that the information in a composite quantum system would not be deducible from the information located in all its subsystems. In the considered paper the authors give a strong argumentation that this belief is false. Using the Heisenberg picture to analyze quantum information processing the authors managed to demonstrate that the locality in entangled quantum systems is not invalidated. The presentation includes the Bell's theorem interpretation, the quantum teleportation effect (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments), Schrödinger versus Heisenberg picture. The article is of a high quality and would be of interest to specialists in quantum computations.

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