Quantum Information Theory
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Quantum Information Theory (QIS) is a further abstraction of an abstract model of real-world physics.
Context
- QIS was first suggested by Richard Feynman as a means to model the real quantum work of subatomic interactions in Information Theory.
Reversibility
- The current model of physical reality (some call the model a set of laws) shows no preference between moving forward versus backwards in time. Particles' "motions" can be predicted either way.
- What is most interesting is that Landauer's principle was originally developed in 2015 to predict the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that "any logically irreversible manipulation of information, such as the erasure of a bit or the merging of two computation paths, must be accompanied by a corresponding entropy increase in non-information-bearing degrees of freedom of the information-processing apparatus or its environment".[1]
Three Areas of QIS
These areas were taken from Hoofnagle and Garfinkel's book[2]
Quantum Sensing
Quantum Communication
See the wiki page on the Quantum Computing Threat to existing cryptography.
Quantum Computing
- Most closely tracks the original suggest from Richard Feynman in modeling the physical reality of Quantum Mechanics.
- Note that some would place the Quantum Computing Threat in this category as well. Any taxonomy such as this runs into classification ambiguity.
References
- ↑ Charles H. Bennett, Notes on Landauer's principle, Reversible Computation and Maxwell's Demon. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics volume=34 issue=3 pp. 501–510 (2003) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos576/papers/bennett03.pdf DOI 10.1016/S1355-2198(03)00039-X
- ↑ Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Simson L. Garfinkel, Law and Policy for the Quantum Age Cambridge UP 2022 ISN 9781108793179
