This book excerpt traces the history of quantum information theory and the colorful and famous physicists who tried to figure out «spooky action at a distance» (scientificamerican.com)
Schumacher's idea did not get a lot of attention at first, but it eventually became the foundational idea for quantum information theory, a field now booming with efforts to construct a quantum computer based on the manipulation of qubits. (sciencenews.org)
Recent advancements in a field called quantum information theory offered a mathematical construction in which entropy increases. (sciencedaily.com)