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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Heinz-Peter Breuer; F Petruccione |
ISBN: | 9780199213900 0199213909 |
OCLC Number: | 876166237 |
Notes: | Originally published as hbk.: 2002. |
Description: | xxi, 613 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Probability in Classical and Quantum Physics -- Classical probability theory and stochastic processes -- The probability space -- The [sigma]-algebra of events -- Probability measures and Kolmogorov axioms -- Conditional probabilities and independence -- Random variables -- Definition of random variables -- Transformation of random variables -- Expectation values and characteristic function -- Stochastic processes -- Formal definition of a stochastic process -- The hierarchy of joint probability distributions -- Markov processes -- The Chapman-Kolmogorov equation -- Differential Chapman-Kolmogorov equation -- Deterministic processes and Liouville equation -- Jump processes and the master equation -- Diffusion processes and Fokker-Planck equation -- Piecewise deterministic processes -- The Liouville master equation -- Waiting time distribution and sample paths -- Path integral representation of PDPs -- Stochastic calculus for PDPs -- Levy processes -- Translation invariant processes -- The Levy-Khintchine formula -- Stable Levy processes -- Quantum probability -- The statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics -- Self-adjoint operators and the spectral theorem -- Observables and random variables -- Pure states and statistical mixtures -- Joint probabilities in quantum mechanics -- Composite quantum systems -- Tensor product -- Schmidt decomposition and entanglement -- Quantum entropies -- Von Neumann entropy -- Relative entropy -- Linear entropy -- The theory of quantum measurement -- Ideal quantum measurements. |
Other Titles: | Open quantum systems |
Responsibility: | Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione. |
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