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
Editors: Breuer, Heinz-Peter, Petruccione, Francesco (Eds.)
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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.
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State vector reduction in relativistic quantum mechanics: An introduction
Pages 1-30
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Quantum measurements, open systems and dynamical entropy
Pages 31-55
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EEQT — A way out of the quantum trap
Pages 57-79
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Stochastic unraveling of relativistic quantum measurements
Pages 81-116
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Some lessons from relativistic reduction models
Pages 117-152
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Open Systems and Measurement in Relativistic Quantum Theory
- Book Subtitle
- Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, April 3–4, 1998
- Editors
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- Heinz-Peter Breuer
- Francesco Petruccione
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Physics
- Series Volume
- 526
- Copyright
- 1999
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-48808-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/BFb0104396
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-65978-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-08524-6
- Series ISSN
- 0075-8450
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 240
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