Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2006-05-10
International Journal of Theoretical Physics, vol. 46, pp. 860-876, 2007.
Physics
Quantum Physics
21 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Thermodynamic entropy is not an entirely satisfactory measure of information of a quantum state. This entropy for an unknown pure state is zero, although repeated measurements on copies of such a pure state do communicate information. In view of this, we propose a new measure for the informational entropy of a quantum state that includes information in the pure states and the thermodynamic entropy. The origin of information is explained in terms of an interplay between unitary and non-unitary evolution. Such complementarity is also at the basis of the so-called interaction-free measurement.
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