Conceptual inadequacy of the Shannon information in quantum measurements

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 022113-022111

  Brukner, Časlav ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

QUANTUM MEASUREMENT; SHANNON INFORMATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4043161821     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.022113     Document Type: Article

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