Overview
- Gives a comprehensive introduction to information/entropy as a fundamental concept in science
- Includes forays into genetics, logic, data processing, causality, and many other fields
- Visualizes abstract ideas with the help of more than one hundred illustrations
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Natural Systems as Information Processors
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Front Matter
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Computers as Natural Systems
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Back Matter
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About this book
This wide-ranging book introduces information as a key concept not only in physics, from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics, but also in the neighboring sciences and in the humanities. The central part analyzes dynamical processes as manifestations of information flows between microscopic and macroscopic scales and between systems and their environment. Quantum mechanics is interpreted as a reconstruction of mechanics based on fundamental limitations of information processing on the smallest scales. These become particularly manifest in quantum chaos and in quantum computing. Covering subjects such as causality, prediction, undecidability, chaos, and quantum randomness, the book also provides an information-theoretical view of predictability.
More than 180 illustrations visualize the concepts and arguments. The book takes inspiration from the author's graduate-level topical lecture but is also well suited for undergraduate studies and is a valuableresource for researchers and professionals.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Thomas Dittrich studied physics and philosophy in Hamburg. His research on complex quantum dynamics started with his Ph.D. in Essen and continued during postdoctoral stays at the Weizmann Institute, University of Augsburg, and MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems. In parallel with his position as professor of physics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, which he has held since 2000, he has enjoyed research stays in Germany, Israel, Mexico, India, and Brazil. He publishes on quantum chaos, semiclassical methods, quantum information, and randomness.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Information Dynamics
Book Subtitle: In Classical and Quantum Systems
Authors: Thomas Dittrich
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96745-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96744-4Published: 24 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96747-5Published: 24 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96745-1Published: 23 November 2022
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 557
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 124 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Coding and Information Theory, Genetics and Genomics, Computational Social Sciences, Quantum Computing, Logic