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Interpretative Aspects of Quantum Mechanics - Matteo Campanella's Mathematical Studies

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This book presents a selection of Prof. Matteo Campanella's writings on the interpretative aspects of quantum mechanics and on a possible derivation of Born's rule - one of the key principles of the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics - that is independent of any priori probabilistic interpretation. This topic is of fundamental interest, and as such is currently an active area of research. Starting from a natural method of defining such a state, Campanella found that it can be characterized through a partial density operator, which occurs as a consequence of the formalism and of a number of reasonable assumptions connected with the notion of a state. The book demonstrates that the density operator arises as an orbit invariant that has to be interpreted as probabilistic, and that its quantitative implementation is equivalent to Born's rule. The appendices present various mathematical details, which would have interrupted the continuity of the discussion if they had been included in the main text. For instance, they discuss baricentric coordinates, mapping between Hilbert spaces, tensor products between linear spaces, orbits of vectors of a linear space under the action of its structure group, and the class of Hilbert space as a category.

List of contents

1 Fundamental assumptions.- 2 The state of a quantum system as a subsystem of a composite system.- 3 Relation between the state of a system as isolated and as open.- 4 Universality of the probability function.- 5 Appendix A.- 6 Appendix B.- 7 Appendix C.- 8 Appendix D.

About the author










David Jou is a Professor of Physics of Condensed Matter at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. His research focuses on non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics in classical and quantum systems.

Maria Stella Mongiovì was a Professor of Mathematical-Physics at the Università degli Studi di Palermo. Her research focuses on superfluids hydrodynamics and quantum and classical turbulence.


Product details

Authors Matte Campanella, Matteo Campanella, Davi Jou, David Jou, Maria Stel Mongiovì, Maria Stella Mongiovì
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.09.2021
 
EAN 9783030442095
ISBN 978-3-0-3044209-5
No. of pages 143
Dimensions 155 mm x 8 mm x 235 mm
Illustrations XV, 143 p. 2 illus.
Series UNIPA Springer Series
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics

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