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Here's another head-spinning application of the concept of entropy, in quantum information theory: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/quantum-information
by photochemsyn 5y ago
Here's another head-spinning application of the concept of entropy, in quantum information theory:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/quantum-information-theory/quantum-information-and-entropy/5BCF610B966AFB2468D0F0F46249DCD0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/quantum-information...
> "The first fundamental measure that we introduce is the von Neumman entropy. It is the quantum analog of the Shannon entropy, but it captures both classical and quantum uncertainty in a quantum state. The von Neumann entropy gives meaning to a notion of the information qubit. This notion is different from that of the physical qubit, which is the description of a quantum state in an electron or a photon. The information qubit is the fundamental quantum informational unit of measure, determining how much quantum information is in a quantum system."
Incidentally chem.libretexts.org, a collection of open-source chemistry textbooks, has a good overview of the physical-chemical applications. The site is kind of a mess but you'd want chapter 18.3:
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Map:_A_Molecular_Approach_(Tro) https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Ma...