Can quantum cryptography imply quantum mechanics? Reply to Smolin

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 170-175

  Halvorson, Hans ^a   Bub, Jeffrey ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MECHANICS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; TOYS;

FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS; PHYSICAL THEORY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 16244382348     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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