On a supposed conceptual inadequacy of the Shannon information in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(03)00037-6zbMath1222.81085arXivquant-ph/0112178MaRDI QIDQ720553

Christopher Gordon Timpson

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112178

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanics; von Neumann entropy; Shannon information; information measure; brukner; Zeilinger's foundational principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81P05: General and philosophical questions in quantum theory

81P15: Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations

94A17: Measures of information, entropy

94A15: Information theory (general)

81P94: Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects)

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