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 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Breuer, Heinz-Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Petruccione, Francesco (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 526
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

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 f...

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
• 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.