Quantum Probability — Quantum Logic

✍ Scribed by Itamar Pitowsky (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book compares various approaches to the interpretation of quantum mechanics, in particular those which are related to the key words "the Copenhagen interpretation", "the antirealist view", "quantum logic" and "hidden variable theory". Using the concept of "correlation" carefully analyzed in the context of classical probability and in quantum theory, the author provides a framework to compare these approaches. He also develops an extension of probability theory to construct a local hidden variable theory. The book should be of interest for physicists and philosophers of science interested in the foundations of quantum theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-10
Classical correlation polytopes and propositional logic....Pages 11-51
Quantum correlations....Pages 52-99
Quantum logic....Pages 100-137
Hidden variables and Kolmogorovian models....Pages 138-175
Philosophical remarks....Pages 176-196

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Quantum Computing, Information and Physics