Quantum information as a general paradigm

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 787-815

  Auletta, Gennaro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b Gregorian University   (Italy)

Author keywords

complexity; entanglement; epigenesis; measurement; mutual information; structural information

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844480627     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-005-4565-6     Document Type: Article

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