Physics as Information

Jincheng Zhang

This paper proposes the Information Entropy Physical Quantization (IEPQ) framework, a novel approach to understanding the physical nature of information entropy within the context of quantum systems. The core claim of IEPQ is that information entropy can be physically quantifiable and exhibits a fundamental correspondence with quantum states. The proposed mechanism leverages quantum information theory, mapping information entropy to the description of quantum states. Utilizing quantum measurement and entanglement, IEPQ seeks to achieve the physical manipulation and transformation of information entropy. This work delves into the mathematical formalization of this framework, outlining key concepts and potential applications, primarily focusing on the theoretical development rather than experimental validation. The goal is to establish a bridge between information theory and quantum physics, offering a new perspective on the relationship between information and reality at the fundamental level. ---

Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano

Vasil Dinev Penchev

Quantum mechanics was reformulated as an information theory involving a generalized kind of information, namely quantum information, in the end of the last century. Quantum mechanics is the most fundamental physical theory referring to all claiming to be physical. Any physical entity turns out to be quantum information in the final analysis. A quantum bit is the unit of quantum information, and it is a generalization of the unit of classical information, a bit, as well as the quantum information itself is a generalization of classical information. Classical information refers to finite series or sets while quantum information, to infinite ones. Quantum information as well as classical information is a dimensionless quantity. Quantum information can be considered as a “bridge” between the mathematical and physical. The standard and common scientific epistemology grants the gap between the mathematical models and physical reality. The conception of truth as adequacy is what is able to transfer “over” that gap. One should explain how quantum information being a continuous transition between the physical and mathematical may refer to truth as adequacy and thus to the usual scientific epistemology and methodology. If it is the overall substance of anything claiming to be physical, one can question how different and dimensional physical quantities appear. Quantum information can be discussed as the counterpart of action. Quantum information is what is conserved, action is what is changed in virtue of the fundamental theorems of Emmy Noether (1918). The gap between mathematical models and physical reality, needing truth as adequacy to be overcome, is substituted by the openness of choice. That openness in turn can be interpreted as the openness of the present as a different concept of truth recollecting Heidegger’s one as “unconcealment” (ἀλήθεια). Quantum information as what is conserved can be thought as the conservation of that openness

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Luca Callegaro, Francesca Romana Pennecchi, Walter Bich

The paper ``Physics without determinism: Alternative interpretations of classical physics'' [Phys. Rev. A 100, 062107 (2019)] defines finite information quantities (FIQ). A FIQ expresses the available information about the value of a physical quantity. We show that a change in the measurement unit does not preserve the information carried by a FIQ and therefore that the definition provided in the paper is not complete.