PIRSA:15050079

Information and the architecture of quantum theory

Hoehn, P. (2015). Information and the architecture of quantum theory. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15050079

Hoehn, Philipp. Information and the architecture of quantum theory. Perimeter Institute, May. 12, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15050079 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:15050079,
            doi = {10.48660/15050079},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15050079},
            author = {Hoehn, Philipp},
            keywords = {Mathematical physics, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Information},
            language = {en},
            title = {Information and the architecture of quantum theory},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:15050079 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Philipp Hoehn

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

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I will argue that, apart from their ever growing number of applications to physics, information theoretic concepts also offer a novel perspective on the physical content and architecture of quantum theory and spacetime. As a concrete example, I will discuss how one can derive and understand the formalism of qubit quantum theory by focusing only on what an observer can say about a system and imposing a few simple rules on the observer’s acquisition of information.