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Relativistic Quantum Measurement and Decoherence

Lectures of a Workshop Held at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Naples, April 9-10, 1999

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Heinz-Peter Breuer

    1. Faculty of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  2. Francesco Petruccione

    1. Faculty of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  • Deals with one of the most interesting and fundamental problems of modern physics
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 559)

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Table of contents (7 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Special Relativity as an Open Question

    • David Z. Albert
    Pages 1-13

  3. Event-Ready Entanglement

    • Pieter Kok, Samuel L. Braunstein
    Pages 15-29

  4. Radiation Damping and Decoherence in Quantum Electrodynamics

    • Heinz-Peter Breuer, Francesco Petruccione
    Pages 31-65

  5. Decoherence: A Dynamical Approach to Superselection Rules?

    • Domenico Giulini
    Pages 67-91

  6. Quantum Histories and Their Implications

    • Adrian Kent
    Pages 93-115

  7. Quantum Measurements and Non-locality

    • Sandu Popescu, Nicolas Gisin
    Pages 117-123

  8. False Loss of Coherence

    • William G. Unruh
    Pages 125-140
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About this book

The development of a consistent picture for the processes of decoherence and quantum measurement requires a treatment which is compatible with the theory of relativity. This volume reviews some of the approaches suggested to solve or circumvent the arising difficulties. Starting from an analysis of the level of compatibility of the measurement problem with the special theory of relativity, the role of non-locality and entanglement are discussed. The subject is also addressed from the point of view of quantum optics and quantum information theory, as well as on the basis of group theoretic and algebraic methods. The emergence of decoherence in quantum electrodynamics is discussed from an open systems perspective.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Heinz-Peter Breuer, Francesco Petruccione

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Relativistic Quantum Measurement and Decoherence

  • Book Subtitle: Lectures of a Workshop Held at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Naples, April 9-10, 1999

  • Editors: Heinz-Peter Breuer, Francesco Petruccione

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45369-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41061-4Due: 04 October 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-14302-5Published: 17 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45369-7Published: 11 January 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 142

  • Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

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