Author： Bub Jeffrey
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0015-9018
Source： Foundations of Physics, Vol.35, Iss.4, 2005-04, pp. : 541-560
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Abstract
I argue that quantum mechanics is fundamentally a theory about the representation and manipulation of information, not a theory about the mechanics of nonclassical waves or particles. The notion of quantum information is to be understood as a new physical primitive---just as, following Einstein’s special theory of relativity, a field is no longer regarded as the physical manifestation of vibrations in a mechanical medium, but recognized as a new physical entity in its own right.
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