Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information
Edited by Wojciech H. Zurek
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Wojciech H. Zurek
Physics of Information
Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links
John Archibald Wheeler
Information from Quantum Measurements
Benjamin Schumacher
Local Accessibility of Quantum States
William K. Wootters
The Entropy of Black Holes
V. F. Mukhanov
Some Simple Consequences of the Loss of Information in a Spacetime
with a Horizon
Shin Takagi
Why is the Physical World so Comprehensible?
P. C. W. Davies
Laws of Physics and Laws of Computation
Algorithmic Information Content, Church-Turing Thesis, Physical Entropy,
and Maxwell's Demon
W. H. Zurek
Entropy and Information: How Much Information is Needed to Assign
a Probability?
Carlton M. Caves
Complexity of Models
J. Rissanen
Laws and Boundary Conditions
C. H. Woo
How to Define Complexity in Physics, and Why
Charles H. Bennett
Complexity and Evolution
Requirements for Envolvability in Complex Systems: Orderly Dynamics
and Frozen Components
Stuart A. Kauffman
Valuable Information
Seth Lloyd
Non-equilibrium Polymers, Entropy, and Algorithmic Information
Dilip K. Kondepudi
The Dynamics of Complex Computational Systems
Tad Hogg
Computation at the Onset of Chaos
James P. Crutchfield and
Karl Young
Physics of Computation
Parallel Quantum Computation
Norman Margolus
Information Processing at the Molecular Level: Possible Realizations
and Physical Constraints
W. G. Teich and G. Mahler
How Cheap Can Mechanics' First Principles Be?
Tommaso Toffoli
Intermittent Fluctuations and Complexity
Xiao-Jing Wang
Information Processing in Visual Perception
A. Zee
Probability, Entropy, and Quantum
Thermodynamic Constraints on Quantum Axioms
Asher Peres
Entropy and Quantum Mechanics
M. Hossein Partovi
Einstein Completion of Quantum Mechanics Made Falsifiable
O. E. Rössler
Quantum Mechanics and Algorithmic Complexity
J. W. Barrett
Probability in Quantum Theory
E. T. Jaynes
Quantum Measurements and Entropy
H. D. Zeh
Quantum Theory and Measurement
Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology
Murray
Gell-Mann and James B. Hartle
Information Dissipation in Quantum Cosmology and the Emergence
of Classical Spacetime
Jonathan J. Halliwell
The Quantum Mechanics of Self-Measurement
David Z. Albert
The Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Light of Classical Bell's
and Quantum Tsirelson's Inequalities
L. A. Khalfin
Some Progress in Measurement Theory: The Logical Interpretation of
Quantum Mechanics
Roland Omnes
Indexes