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Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information (and only a little more)

Christopher A. Fuchs (Bell Labs)

arxiv:quant-ph/0205039 v1 · 2002-05-08 · quant-ph

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6 papers in Pith

Quantum Reconstruction and Phenomenology per the Relativity Principle
Universal Entanglement and an Information-Complete Quantum Theory
The composition rule for quantum systems is not the only possible one
Existence as Distinguishability: Quantum Mechanics from Finite Graded Equality
A skepticism on the concept of quantum state related to quantum field theory on curved spacetime
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Canonical hash

4184cdd7b99102e06a9ccdc6a6d3b6eaa9eb6c1c87ae318af5533ce269ef7b6b

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arxiv: quant-ph/0205039 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0205039v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0205039 · pith_short_12: IGCM3V5ZSEBO · pith_short_16: IGCM3V5ZSEBOA2U4 · pith_short_8: IGCM3V5Z
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Verify this Pith Number yourself 
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IGCM3V5ZSEBOA2U4ZXDKNU5W5K \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4184cdd7b99102e06a9ccdc6a6d3b6eaa9eb6c1c87ae318af5533ce269ef7b6b
Canonical record JSON 
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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc8fbe14eda3526fa165ddd992db5903b38d4ef124cd76ff466c8b7103958555",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-08T13:14:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5633f4ac8794073ba338eeff8d9ef365deba5e969be29d77340df84b654431f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0205039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}