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quant-ph2014★ 16 cited
Building the Observer into the System: Toward a Realistic Description of Human Interaction with the World
Chris Fields
Human beings do not observe the world from the outside, but rather are fully embedded in it. The sciences, however, often give the observer both a "god's eye" perspective and subst…
quant-ph2014★ 1 cited
Hilbert-space factorization is a limited and expensive information-processing resource
Chris Fields
By taking the need for quantum reference frames into account, it is shown that Hilbert-space factorization is a dissipative process requiring on the order of kT to reduce by one bi…
quant-ph2014★ 1 cited
Decompositional equivalence: A fundamental symmetry underlying quantum theory
Chris Fields
Decompositional equivalence is the principle that there is no preferred decomposition of the universe into subsystems. It is shown here, by using simple thought experiments, that q…