Information flow in entangled quantum systems
Abstract
All information in quantum systems is, notwithstanding Bell's theorem, localised. Measuring or otherwise interacting with a quantum system S has no effect on distant systems from which S is dynamically isolated, even if they are entangled with S. Using the Heisenberg picture to analyse quantum information processing makes this locality explicit, and reveals that under some circumstances (in particular, in Einstein-Podolski-Rosen experiments and in quantum teleportation) quantum information is transmitted through 'classical' (i.e. decoherent) information channels.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A
- Pub Date:
- July 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1098/rspa.2000.0585
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/9906007
- Bibcode:
- 2000RSPSA.456.1759D
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- PostScript version now available: http://www.qubit.org/people/patrickh/Papers/InformationFlow.ps