Description

All information in quantum systems is, notwithstanding BellÕs theorem,
localised. Measuring or otherwise interacting with a quantum system S has
no effect on distant systems from which S is dynamically isolated, even if they
are entangled with S. Using the Heisenberg picture to analyse quantum
information processing makes this locality explicit, and reveals that under
some circumstances (in particular, in Einstein-Podolski-Rosen experiments
and in quantum teleportation) quantum information is transmitted through
ÔclassicalÕ (i.e. decoherent) information channels.