Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Chiribella, Giulio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Spekkens, Robert W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 181
• Θέματα: Physics.; Coding theory.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum physics.; Quantum Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Coding and Information Theory.; Mathematical Physics.

This book provides the first unified overview of the burgeoning research area at the interface between Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information.  Topics include: operational alternatives to quantum theory, information-theoretic reconstructions of the quantum formalism, mathematical frameworks for...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Part 1 Foil Theories
• Optimal Information Transfer and Real-Vector-Space Quantum Theory (William K. Wootters)
• Almost quantum theory (Benjamin Schumacher, Michael D. Westmoreland)
• Quasi-quantization: classical statistical theories with an epistemic restriction (Robert W. Spekkens).-Part 2 Axiomatizations
• Information-theoretic postulates for quantum theory (Markus P. Müller, Lluís Masanes)
• Quantum from principles (Giulio Chiribella, Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Paolo Perinotti)
• Reconstructing Quantum Theory (Lucien Hardy)
• The classical limit of a physical theory and the dimensionality of space (Borivoje Dakić, Časlav Brukner)
• Some Negative Remarks on Operational Approaches to Quantum Theory (Christopher A. Fuchs, Blake C. Stacey)
• Generalised Compositional Theories and Diagrammatic Reasoning (Bob Coecke, Ross Duncan, Aleks Kissinger, Quanlong Wang).Part 3 Categories and ordered vectors spaces
• Post-Classical Probability Theory (Howard Barnum and Alexander Wilce)
• Information causality (Marcin Pawłowski, Valerio Scarani)
•  Part 4 Quantum correlations
• Macroscopic locality (Miguel Navascués)
• Guess your neighbour’s input: no quantum advantage but an advantage for quantum theory (Antonio Aćın, Mafalda L. Almeida, Remigiusz Augusiak, Nicolas Brunner)
• The completeness of quantum theory for predicting measurement outcomes (Roger Colbeck, Renato Renner).