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 / Edition 1

by Heinz-Peter Breuer, Francesco Petruccione

Overview

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 shastic 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642085246
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/06/2010
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics , #526
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

State vector reduction in relativistic quantum mechanics: An introduction.- Quantum measurements, open systems and dynamical entropy.- EEQT — A way out of the quantum trap.- Shastic 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.