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Shannon is one of those names, like Riemann or Boltzmann, that I keep running across in quantum mechanics. This was a very interesting article to read.
by Aelinsaar 11y ago
Shannon is one of those names, like Riemann or Boltzmann, that I keep running across in quantum mechanics. This was a very interesting article to read.
- stuxnet79 11y agoDidn't know Shannon was a figurehead in QM, but then again I hardly know any quantum mechanics - mind summarizing his contributions to the field for a lay person.
- fouc 11y agoMight have to do with the role of information in QM.
- stuxnet79 11y agoMakes sense, I thought it was something completely unrelated to information theory.
- q4h555qh5 11y agoEntropy and information theory in general as discovered was Shannon has been generalized to the quantum case and a lot of the mathematical tools Shannon created are used in quantum information theory (QIT is a big part of QM). QIT is even often called quantum shannon theory, but I'm not sure Shannon dealt with anything quantum per se.