Author

Contributions

  • Lahti, Pekka 1948- - Contributor
  • Mittelstaedt, Peter. - Contributor

Publication

1991 - Springer-Verlag, Berlin

Language

English

Word Count

41,250 words, Guess

Page Count

165 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1546916M
  • ISBN-103540543341
  • OCLC Control Number24247328
  • Library of Congress Control Number91026245
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  • LibraryThing8068585

Classifications

  • DDC530.8
  • LCCQC39 .B86 1991

Description

The amazing accuracy in verifying quantum effects experimentally has recently renewed interest in quantum mechanical measurement theory. In this book the authors give within the Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics a systematic exposition of the quantum theory of measurement. Their approach includes the concepts of unsharp objectification and of nonunitary transformations needed for a unifying description of various detailed investigations. The book addresses advanced students and researchers in physics and philosophy of science. In this second edition Chaps. II-IV have been substantially rewritten. In particular, an insolubility theorem for the objectification problem has been formulated in full generality, which includes unsharp object observables and unsharp pointers.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Lecture notes in physics.

Other Editions

  • The quantum theory of measurementSpringer-Verlag1991

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