Meet the editors

Sergio Curilef is a full professor in the Physics Department, Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), Antofagasta, Chile. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF)-RJ, Brazil, in July 1997. His main research areas are statistical physics and quantum mechanics of systems with long-range interactions, particles in the magnetic field, and nonlinear diffusion. He has recently developed

research on complex systems and applications to science and engineering. He is the principal investigator in several research projects, and he did a sabbatical year at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2007. Dr. Curilef has also created undergraduate and postgraduate programs in physics at his university, and he is currently an academic counselor of the UCN Higher Council.

Angel Ricardo Plastino is a professor in the Departamento de Ciencias Básicas de la Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNNOBA), Argentina. He has a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. His main research interests center on the multidisciplinary applications of ideas and techniques inspired by information theory. He has published more than 200 articles in peer-re-

viewed research journals on topics related to the physics of information, theory of quantum entanglement, foundations of quantum and statistical mechanics, physics of complex systems, and dynamical and mathematical aspects of astronomy.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Gerard 't Hooft*

*by Amitabha Gupta*

**Section 3**

*by Jesús Lacalle*

*by Gopalan Raghavan*

**Preface XI**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Fundamentals **11**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 69**

Applications **97**

**Chapter 5 99**

**Chapter 6 125**

**Chapter 7 145**

Device Independence and the Quest towards Physical Limits of Privacy

Introductory Chapter: Physics of Information and Quantum Mechanics - Some Remarks from a Historical Perspective

Some Foundational Issues in Quantum Information Science

Discretization, the Road to Quantum Computing?

Obscure Qubits and Membership Amplitudes

*by Steven Duplij and Raimund Vogl*

*by Sergio Curilef and Angel Ricardo Plastino*

Ontology in Quantum Mechanics

Can We Entangle Entanglement? *by Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar*
