Abstract
The concepts of information and computation can be properly formulated only in the context of a physical theory - information is stored, transmitted and processed always by physical means. When quantum effects become important for example at the level of single atoms and photons, the existing, purely abstract, classical theory of computation becomes fundamentally inadequate. Entirely new modes of computation and information processing become possible.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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