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Agents, subsystems, and the conservation of information
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Dividing the world into subsystems is an important component of the scientific method. The choice of subsystems, however, is not defined a priori. Typically, it is dictated by experimental capabilities, which may be different for different agents. Here, we propose a way to define subsystems in general physical theories, including theories beyond quantum and classical mechanics. Our construction associates every agent A with a subsystem SA, equipped with its set of states and its set of transf...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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Croucher Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Entropy Journal website
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 5
- Article number:
- 358
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-05
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1099-4300
- Source identifiers:
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847148
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- 2018-05-10
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- Copyright holder:
- © Chiribella
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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