Redundant imprinting of information in nonideal environments: Objective reality via a noisy channel

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Zwolak, Michael ^a   Quan, H T ^a   Zurek, Wojciech H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARWINISMS; DECOHERENCE; ENTROPY CHANGES; INITIAL STATE; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NOISY CHANNEL; NONIDEAL; OBJECTIVE REALITY; POINTER STATE; QUBIT SYSTEM; REDUNDANT INFORMATIONS; SCALING RELATIONS; UNIVERSAL BEHAVIORS;

ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77953526508     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.062110     Document Type: Article

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