Probabilistic and Statistical Aspects of Quantum Theory

• Main Author: Holevo, Alexander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Pisa : Edizioni della Normale, 2011.
• Series: Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Probabilities.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.

This book is devoted to aspects of the foundations of Quantum Mechanics in which probabilistic and statistical concepts play an essential role. The main part of the book concerns the quantitative statistical theory of quantum measurement, based on the notion of Positive Operator-valued Measures. Dur...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword to 2nd English edition
• Foreword to 2nd Russian edition
• Preface
• Chapters: I. Statistical Models
• II. Mathematics of Quantum Theory
• III. Symmetry Groups in Quantum Mechanics
• IV. Covariant Measurements and Optimality
• V. Gaussian States
• VI Unbiased Measurements
• Supplement – Statistical Structure of Quantum Theory and Hidden Variables
• References.