Università della Svizzera italiana

Physics and information : what is the role of information in physics?

Erker, Paul ; Wolf, Stefan ; Winter, Andreas ; Huber, Marcus (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019INFO016.

More than a century ago, physicists around the world were collectively developing a theory to describe the newly discovered strange behaviours of some physical systems. This marks the birth of quantum theory. Few decades later, the groundbreaking idea to separate information from its physical carrier led to the establishment of information theory. These, initially independent theories, merged...