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I would highly recommend the two seminal papers by E. T. Jaynes, http://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.106.620 and, http://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.108.171 Also check out the book by E. T. Jaynes, which has a focus on the foundations in probability but is rather light on applications in physics: ...

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This is simply because of how entropy is defined: a measure of the number of specific realizations or microstates that may realize a thermodynamic system in a defined state specified by macroscopic variables It does not matter how easy it is to describe some general properties of the system, entropy measures how disordered is the system at the ...

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If B released energy when A was measured, you could use it for communication. And you know the answer to "Can entanglement be used for communication?" is NO. You mentioned it in your question! Therefore... No, entangled particles don't release energy when their partner is measured. They don't change in any locally determinable way when their partner is ...

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If the particles are nontrivially entangled, then particle $A$ cannot be in an eigenstate of the energy operator (or any other operator that acts just on $A$'s state space) in the first place. If the initial entangled state is, say, $X\otimes Y+Z\otimes W$, where (for example) $X$ and $Z$ are energy eigenstates, then an observation of particle $B$ will ...

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NOTE: This answer has now been merged into Understanding the quantum eraser from a quantum information stand point (part IV). Let me start by copying the first part of my previous answer which describes the circuit model of a double-slit or other interference experiment; then, I will try to describe the delayed choice setting (the way I understand it). ...

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The answer is structured as follows: I will first give the quantum circuit corresponding to a normal double slit (or interferometer), then the circuit where the which-way information has been recorded, a circuit where the which-way information is first recorded and then erased in a unitary way, and finally a circuit where the which-way information is ...

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This actually extends beyond just computational approaches and applies to experimental approaches also. And it's not at all a trivial problem to address. Generally speaking, we construct a model of some physical system -- either computationally or experimentally -- and we make certain assumptions to simplify the problem. In your circuit example, maybe we ...

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The delayed choice quantum eraser doesn't delete a qubit, it measures an entangled qubit along a parallel axis or else along a perpendicular axis. As an analogy, suppose Alice and Bob share an EPR pair $\left| 01 \right\rangle - \left| 10 \right\rangle$. Alice measures her qubit from the pair along the Z axis. Now, Bob could also measure along the Z axis, ...

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