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PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM INFORMATION
AND ENTANGLEMENT
Recent work in quantum information science has produced a revolution in our
understanding of quantum entanglement. Scientists now view entanglement as a
physical resource with many important applications. These range from quantum
computers, which would be able pute exponentially faster than classical
computers, to quantum cryptographic techniques, which could provide unbreak-
able codes for the transfer of secret information over public channels. These impor-
tant advances in the study of quantum entanglement and information touch on deep
foundational issues in both physics and philosophy.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together fourteen of the world’s leading
physicists and philosophers of physics to address the most important develop-
ments and debates in this exciting area of research. It offers a broad spectrum of
approaches to resolving deep foundational challenges – philosophical, mathemati-
cal, and physical – raised by quantum information, quantum processing, and entan-
glement. This book will interest physicists, philosophers of science, puter
scientists.
A LISA B OKULICH is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Boston Uni-
versity, and the director of Boston University’s Center for Philosophy and History
of Science. Her research focuses on the history and philosophy of physics, as well
as broader issues in the philosophy of science.
G REGG JAEGER is an Associate Professor at Boston University, where he teaches
courses in the Mathematics, Natural Science, Philosophy, and Physics departments.
His recent research focuses on decoherence, entanglement, puting,
and quantum cryptography, and in 2008 he was awarded a Kavli fellowship.
PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM
INFORMATION AND
ENTANGLEMENT
Edited by
ALISA BOKULICH
Boston University
and
GREGG JAEGER
Boston University
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Ma