Operational Quantum Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics - New Series M: Monographs S.) - Hardcover

Busch, Paul; Grabowski, Marian; Lahti, Pekka J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540593586 ISBN 13: 9783540593584

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1997

Synopsis

This text offers a systematic presentation of quantum mechanics, making use of the full probabilistic structure of this theory. Accordingly, the notion of an observable as a positive operator valued (POV) measure is explained in great detail, and the ensuing quantum measurement theory is developed and applied both to a resolution of long-standing conceptual and interpretational puzzles in the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to an analysis of various recent fundamental experiments.

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Operational Quantum Physics offers a systematic presentation of quantummechanics which makes exhaustive use of the full probabilistic structure of this theory. Accordingly thenotion of an observable as a positive operator valued (POV) measure is explained in great detail, and theensuing quantum measurement theory is developed and applied bothto a resolution of long-standing conceptual and interpretational puzzles in the foundations of quantummechanics, and to an analysis of various recent fundamental experiments.
The book, or different parts of it, may be of interest to advanced students or researchers in quantum physics, to philosophers of physics, and to mathematicians working on operator valued measures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540593586
• ISBN 13: 9783540593584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 243