#Negative entropy series#

Special hard covers house each of the five volumes that are bound with colored plastic coils matching the cover's fabrics.ġ/ MTL, this book features images of the factory and machines at MTL (Material Technology & Logistics), a Jacquard textile weaving mill, located in Jessup, Pennsylvania. These were woven on a Dornier Jacquard loom. The slipcase textiles for “Negative Entropy” is a unique section of a weaving from one of the represented sites. Color was assigned to the spectograms, then translated into a pattern by a weaving technician to create a Jacquard fabric.

These works are simultaneously images and material records of their own making.įield recordings of production sounds were made at each site, then transmuted into digital spectrogram images using linguistic audio software. The subjects of this portrait selection are factories that employ industrial textile Jacquard looms (precursors to digital technology) and computer data center sites that comprise the infrastructure of the information economy.

#Negative entropy series#

Cerf, Caltech preprint KRL-MAP-204 (1996).“Negative Entropy” is a series of five abstract Jacquard woven portraits of industrial and information production. Adami, “Quantum mechanics of measurement,” e-print quant-ph/9605002.Ĭ. Adami, “Entropic Bell inequalities,” e-print quant-ph/9608047. Adami, “Negative entropy and information in quantum mechanics,” e-print quant-ph/9512022 “Quantum information theory of entanglement,” e-print quant-ph/9605039.Ī. Zurek, ed., Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Vol. Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1949). von Neumann, Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik(Springer, Berlin, 1932).Ĭ. Such a unified information-theoretic description of classical correlation and quantum entanglement clarifies the link between them: the latter can be viewed as “super-correlation” which can induce classical correlation when considering a ternary or larger system. A straightforward definition of mutual quantum entropy, or “mutual entanglement,” can also be constructed using a “mutual” density matrix. Negative quantum entropy can be traced back to “conditional” density matrices which admit eigenvalues larger than unity. We find that, unlike in Shannon theory, conditional entropies can be negative when considering quantum entangled systems such as an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair, which leads to a violation of well-known bounds of classical information theory. It parallels classical (Shannon) information theory but is based entirely on density matrices, rather than probability distributions, for the description of quantum ensembles.

We present a quantum information theory that allows for the consistent description of quantum entanglement.