Introduction to the book "Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils"

Abstract

We present here our introduction to the contributed volume "Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils", Springer Netherlands (2016). It highlights recent trends in quantum foundations and offers an overview of the contributions appearing in the book.

10 pages + links to the ArXiv version of the other book chapters. The arXiv links can also be found at http://qift.weebly.com/quantum-theory-informational-foundations-and-foils.html The printed version of the book can be found at https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401773027

References in corpus (19)

• Device-independent security of quantum cryptography against collective attacks
• Secure device-independent quantum key distribution with causally independent measurement devices
• Negativity and contextuality are equivalent notions of nonclassicality
• A generalized no-broadcasting theorem
• Beyond Bell's Theorem: Correlation Scenarios
• No extension of quantum theory can have improved predictive power
• Computational power of correlations
• Information-Theoretic Implications of Quantum Causal Structures
• Non-locality distillation and post-quantum theories with trivial communication complexity
• Logical Bell Inequalities
• Implications of Superstrong Nonlocality for Cryptography
• Quantum Theory, namely the pure and reversible theory of information
• Why Physics Needs Quantum Foundations
• Toy quantum categories
• Dilation of states and processes in operational-probabilistic theories
• Terminality implies non-signalling
• A toy model for quantum mechanics
• Quantum Chaos and Quantum-Classical Correspondence
• The black hole information problem beyond quantum theory

Cited by in corpus (78)

• Advances in Quantum Cryptography
• Operational Resource Theory of Imaginarity
• General probabilistic theories: An introduction
• Why interference phenomena do not capture the essence of quantum theory
• Uniqueness of noncontextual models for stabilizer subtheories
• Aspects of the phenomenology of interference that are genuinely nonclassical
• Operational General Relativity: Possibilistic, Probabilistic, and Quantum
• Quantum speedup in the identification of cause-effect relations
• What is nonclassical about uncertainty relations?
• The Entropic Dynamics approach to Quantum Mechanics
• Contextuality without incompatibility
• A necessary condition for incompatibility of observables in general probabilistic theories
• Classical theories with entanglement
• The four postulates of quantum mechanics are three
• Physics Without Physics: The Power of Information-theoretical Principles
• Symmetries of quantum evolutions
• Geometry of the quantum set on no-signaling faces
• Postquantum common-cause channels: the resource theory of local operations and shared entanglement
• Classicality without local discriminability: decoupling entanglement and complementarity
• Classical Simulation of Noncontextual Pauli Hamiltonians
• Kirkwood-Dirac representations beyond quantum states (and their relation to noncontextuality)
• Quantum Simulation Logic, Oracles, and the Quantum Advantage
• Quantifying continuous-variable realism
• Why the Tsirelson Bound? Bub's Question and Fuchs' Desideratum
• A linear program for testing nonclassicality and an open-source implementation
• Operational restrictions in general probabilistic theories
• Approximate stabilizer rank and improved weak simulation of Clifford-dominated circuits for qudits
• Agents, subsystems, and the conservation of information
• Contextuality with vanishing coherence and maximal robustness to dephasing
• The Relativity Principle at the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics
• The future of secure communications: device independence in quantum key distribution
• Unitary Partitioning and the Contextual Subspace Variational Quantum Eigensolver
• Potentiality realism: A realistic and indeterministic physics based on propensities
• Superunsteerability as a quantifiable resource for random access codes assisted by Bell-diagonal states
• Decomposable coherence and quantum fluctuation relations
• A Graphical Calculus for Lagrangian Relations
• Universal structure of objective states in all fundamental causal theories
• Halos and undecidability of tensor stable positive maps
• Measurement incompatibility is strictly stronger than disturbance
• Derivation of quantum theory with superselection rules
• Do we live in an eigenstate of the "fundamental constants" operators?
• The Wave-Particle Duality in a Quantum Heat Engine
• Quantum from principles without assuming definite causal structure
• A classical formulation of quantum theory?
• Generalized dynamical theories in phase space and the hydrogen atom
• Nonlinear Bell inequality for macroscopic measurements
• Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones toward Psi-Doxastic Interpretations?
• On state vs. channel quantum extension problems: exact results for UxUxU symmetry
• Scalar fermionic cellular automata on finite Cayley graphs
• Process tomography in general physical theories
• Bell Nonlocality in Classical Systems Coexisting with other System Types
• Advantages of quantum communication revealed by the reexamination of hyperbit theory limitations
• Putting probabilities first. How Hilbert space generates and constrains them
• Robustness of contextuality under different types of noise as quantifiers for parity-oblivious multiplexing tasks
• Every non-signalling channel is common-cause realizable
• Probing the limits of quantum theory with quantum information at subnuclear scales
• A quantum prediction as a collection of epistemically restricted classical predictions
• Choi-Defined Resource Theories
• Real randomized measurements for analyzing properties of quantum states
• Axial momentum for the relativistic Majorana particle
• A simple formulation of no-cloning and no-hiding that admits efficient and robust verification
• "Mysteries" of Modern Physics and the Fundamental Constants $c$, $h$, and $G$
• Nonlocality of Quantum States can be Transitive
• Beyond the Projection Postulate and Back: Quantum Theories with Generalised State-Update Rules
• Symmetry-induced failures of tomographic locality: Constructing foil theories by twirling
• Conical Designs and Categorical Jordan Algebraic Post-Quantum Theories
• Defending the Quantum Reconstruction Program
• Can a qudit carry more information than a dit?
• A classical interpretation of the Scrooge distribution
• A Mathematical Framework for Causally Structured Dilations and its Relation to Quantum Self-Testing
• Does Quantum Mechanics Breed Larger, More Intricate Quantum Theories? The Case for Experience-Centric Quantum Theory and the Interactome of Quantum Theories
• Relativistic quantum mechanics of the Majorana particle: quaternions, paired plane waves, and orthogonal representations of the Poincaré group
• Incompatible observables in classical physics: A closer look at measurement in Hamiltonian mechanics
• Quantum theory is logically inevitable
• Measurement simulability and incompatibility in quantum theory and other operational theories
• Noncontextual Pauli Hamiltonians
• Gleason's Theorem for a Qubit as Part of a Composite System
• Ruling out the class of statistical processes involving two noninteracting identical particles in two modes