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Information, Correlations, and More

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Quantum information science has experienced enormous developments during the last 30 years. I do not cover this wide and fascinating field in these notes, but shall only discuss briefly some relations with the question of the formalism. Indeed quantum information theory led to new points of view and to new uses and applications of quantum theory. This renewal is considered by some authors as a real change of paradigm, and referred to as “the second quantum revolution”.

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Notes

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    Slightly more general than in some presentations.

  2. 2.

    In some discussions the context may include additional parameters (not included into the hidden variables) like the details of the apparatus used, etc.

  3. 3.

    If not satisfying every minds, every times…

  4. 4.

    Well… as long as gravity is not taken into account!

  5. 5.

    as already pointed out in [105].

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David, F. (2015). Information, Correlations, and More. In: The Formalisms of Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 893. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10539-0_5

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