The choice uncertainty principle

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 9-14

  Denning, Peter J ^a,b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ACM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE (HUP); QUANTUM STATE; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE;

DECISION MAKING; METASTABLE PHASES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 36049006464     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1297797.1297809     Document Type: Article

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