Classical and quantum: two kinds of information?

OLIMPIA LOMBARDI; CRISTIAN LÓPEZ

Buenos Aires

Workshop; II Workshop on Ontology of Physics; 2017

In this work we will deal exclusively with the concept of information within the communicational context, in which information is mainly something that has to be transmitted for communication purposes. The aim of the paper is to analyze some arguments traditionally put forward to support the idea that quantum information is qualitatively different from classical information. On the basis of the analysis of those arguments, we will conclude 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 of quantum states.