IFLP   13074
INSTITUTO DE FISICA LA PLATA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
What is quantum information?
Autor/es:
OLIMPIA LOMBARDI; FEDERICO HOLIK; LEONARDO VANNI
Revista:
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2016 p. 17 - 26
ISSN:
1355-2198
Resumen:
In the present article we address the question ´What is quantum information?´ from a conceptual viewpoint. In particular, we argue that there seems to be no sufficiently good reasons to accept that quantum information is qualitatively different from classical information. The view that, in the communicational context, there is only one kind of information, physically neutral, which can be encoded by means of classical or quantum states has, in turn, interesting conceptual advantages. First, it dissolves thewidely discussed puzzles of teleportation without the need to assume a particular interpretation of information. Second, and from a more general viewpoint, it frees the attempts to reconstruct quantum mechanics on the basis of informational constraints from any risk of circularity; furthermore, it endows them with a strong conceptual appealing and, derivatively, opens the way to the possibility of a nonreductive unification of physics. Finally, in the light of the idea of the physical neutrality of information,the wide field of research about classical models for quantum information acquires a particular conceptual and philosophical interest.