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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In 1932 John von Neumann [1] introduced the following assumption about the reduction of the wave function within the orthodox statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics: As a consequence of the measurement of one (or more) observables the state vector characterizing the measured system undergoes an instantaneous change, a discontinuous quantum jump; after the measurement the system is described by one of the possible eigenfunctions of the measured observables. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vector reduction postulate, cooked probability density, naive mean field equations, quantum state diffusion model, quantum probe, quasiclassical particle, dynamical reduction program, nonlocal observables, covariant prescription, state vector reduction, decoherent histories approach, collective observables, dynamical reduction models, dynamical entropy, infinite quantum systems, dynamical map, functional differential operators, vacuum excitation, piecewise deterministic process, orthodox quantum theory, decoherence functional, collapse rate, collapse dynamics, quantum measurement theory, dynamical localization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In 1932 John von Neumann [1] introduced the following assumption about the reduction of the wave function within the orthodox statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics: As a consequence of the measurement of one (or more) observables the state vector characterizing the measured system undergoes an instantaneous change, a discontinuous quantum jump; after the measurement the system is described by one of the possible eigenfunctions of the measured observables. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vector reduction postulate, cooked probability density, naive mean field equations, quantum state diffusion model, quantum probe, quasiclassical particle, dynamical reduction program, nonlocal observables, covariant prescription, state vector reduction, decoherent histories approach, collective observables, dynamical reduction models, dynamical entropy, infinite quantum systems, dynamical map, functional differential operators, vacuum excitation, piecewise deterministic process, orthodox quantum theory, decoherence functional, collapse rate, collapse dynamics, quantum measurement theory, dynamical localization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World Scientific, Plenum Press, Princeton University Press, Dirac Hamiltonian, John Bell, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Academic Press, Experimental Metaphysics, Sixty-Two Years of Uncertainty, Abner Shimony, Foundations of Physics, Imperial College, Istituto Italiano, Oxford University Press, Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry, Veiled Reality New!
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- Quantum Concepts in Space and Time (Oxford science publications) by R. Penrose on 4 pages
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Proceedings of the International School of Physics. Enrico Fermi. Course IL) by B. D'Espagnat on page 151, page 192, and Back Matter
- Quantum Theory (Dover Books on Physics) by David Bohm on page 151, page 231, and Back Matter
- Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information by Wojciech H. Zurek on page 167, and Back Matter
- Advances in Quantum Phenomena (NATO Science Series B: Physics) by Enrico G. Beltrametti on page 150, and page 151
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- New Trends in HERA Physics 1999 by G. Grindhammer in Back Matter
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