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Information and the Brukner-Zeilinger interpretation of quantum mechanics: A critical investigation

Shafiee, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2006

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/s10702-006-1845-0
  3. Publisher: 2006
  4. Abstract:
  5. In Brukner and Zeilinger's interpretation of quantum mechanics, information is introduced as the most fundamental notion and the finiteness of information is considered as an essential feature of quantum systems. They also define a new measure of information which is inherently different from the Shannon information and try to show that the latter is not useful in defining the information content in a quantum object. Here, we show that there are serious problems in their approach which make their efforts unsatisfactory. The finiteness of information does not explain how objective results appear in experiments and what an instantaneous change in the so-called information vector (or catalog of knowledge) really means during the measurement. On the other hand, Brukner and Zeilinger's definition of a new measure of information may lose its significance, when the spin measurement of an elementary system is treated realistically. Hence, the sum of the individual measures of information may not be a conserved value in real experiments. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc
  6. Keywords:
  7. Brukner and Zeilinger's interpretation ; Shannon information ; Quantum mechanics ; Information concept
  8. Source: Foundations of Physics Letters ; Volume 19, Issue 1 , 2006 , Pages 1-20 ; 08949875 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10702-006-1845-0