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

Heinz-Peter Breuer, Francesco Petruccione (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 240 Seiten

2010 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-08524-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Francesco Petruccione ist Professor für Theoretische Physik an der Universität von KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, Südafrika.

State vector reduction in relativistic quantum mechanics: An introduction.- Quantum measurements, open systems and dynamical entropy.- EEQT - A way out of the quantum trap.- Stochastic unraveling of relativistic quantum measurements.- Some lessons from relativistic reduction models.- Effective theories of coupled classical and quantum variables.- Are there unsolved problems in the interpretation of quantum mechanics?.- Collapse models.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 240 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	Coherence • Decoherence • Diffusion • quantum mechanics • Quantum Theory • Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
ISBN-10	3-642-08524-5 / 3642085245
ISBN-13	978-3-642-08524-6 / 9783642085246
Zustand	Neuware