Consistent Quantum Theory

Name: Consistent Quantum Theory
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ISBN: 9780521539296

ISBN-10: 0521539293

ISBN-13: 9780521539296

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert B. Griffiths

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This volume elucidates the consistent quantum theory approach to quantum mechanics at a level accessible to university students in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science, making this an ideal supplement to standard textbooks. Griffiths provides a clear explanation of points not yet adequately treated in traditional texts and which students find confusing, as do their teachers. The book will also be of interest to physicists and philosophers working on the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Book details

List price: $116.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 7.28" wide x 9.92" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

Robert B. Griffiths is the Otto Stern University Professor of Physics at Carnegie-Mellon University. In 1962, he received his PhD in physics from Stanford University. Currently a Fellow of the American Physical Society and member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from the American Physical Society in 1984. He is the author or co-author of 130 papers on various topics in theoretical physics, mainly statistical and quantum mechanics.




Introduction



Wave functions



Linear algebra in Dirac notation



Physical properties



Probabilities and physical variables



Composite systems and tensor products



Unitary dynamics



Stochastic histories



The Born rule



Consistent histories



Checking consistency



Examples of consistent families



Quantum interference



Dependent (contextual) events



Density matrices



Quantum reasoning



Measurements I



Measurements II



Coins and counterfactuals



Delayed choice paradox



Indirect measurement paradox



Incompatibility paradoxes



Singlet state correlations



EPR paradox and Bell inequalities



Hardy's paradox



Decoherence and the classical limit



Quantum theory and reality


Bibliography