Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- What is information? -- Quantum information theory -- Case study : teleportation -- The Deutsch-Hayden approach : nonlocality, entanglement, and information flow -- Quantum computation and the Church-Turing hypothesis -- Information and the foundations of quantum mechanics : preliminaries -- Some information-theoretic approaches -- Quantum Bayesianism 1 : the proposal -- Quantum Bayesianism 2 : challenges -- Conclusions -- [Appendix] A.A review of the quantum formalism -- [Appendix] B. Generalized uncertainty measures : Uffink's axioms.
