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Quantum detection and estimation theory, Volume 123 (Mathematics in Science and Engineering)

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Covers topics important to quantum communications and quantum cryptography in a clear and understandable manner. Other books gloss over these topics too quickly for you to be able to understand them. Then they refer to this book for the "real" explanation. No wonder it is in high demand. Shame on the publishers for not reprinting it. It also has the clearest explanation of the second quantization that I have ever seen. No fooling around with "mesons" or whatever; it goes straight to the photon; and the photon is what every beginner wants to understand first anyway. This book just takes the plane-wave solutions to Maxwell's equations and adds the oldest "algebraic" quantization of the harmonic oscillator that there is - the annihilation and creation operators. (This "algebraic quantization" is nicely explained in David Park's classic introductory book on quamtum mechanics.) What could be simpler? And, if string theory is interesting to you, that's how Joe P. assumes you know how to do it anyway, in his classic text on string theory called, "String Theory."

Conditions (1.5)-(1.6) for optimal quantum measurements on page 91 chapter 4 exist in a simpler form. See the article

Holevo, "Remarks on optimal measurements," Problems in transmission of information 10 #4 (1974).

See also the article 0902.0395 on the arXiv.