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Open Systems and Measurement in Relativistic Quantum Theory: Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Naples, April 3–4, 1998

By Heinz-Peter Breuer , Francesco Petruccione (auth.) , Francesco Petruccione (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1999
ISBN
3540659781, 9783540659785
DOI
10.1007/BFb0104396
ISSN
0075-8450
LCC
QC174.24.R4 O64 1999
Open Library ID
OL40238M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1483705 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics 526
Edition
1
Pages
240\245
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Information and PhysicsQuantum Physics; Quantum Computing

Description

This book treats modern aspects of open systems, measurement, and decoherence in relativistic quantum theory. It starts with a comprehensive introduction to the problems related to measuring local and nonlocal observables and the constraints imposed by the causality principle. In the articles that follow, the emphasis lies on new theoretical models. Quantum dynamical semigroups and stochastic processes in Hilbert space are introduced, as are dynamical reduction models. Further topics include relativistic generalizations of the continuous spontaneous localization model and of the quantum state diffusion model and decoherence and the dynamical selection of preferred basis sets in the framework of continuous measurement theory and of the decoherent histories approach. Mathematical aspects of quantum measurement theory and dynamical entropies are also studied from the viewpoint of the operational approach to quantum mechanics.

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