Probing the Sructure of Quantum Mechanics: Nonlinearity, Nonlocality, Computation & Axiomatics - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 9810248474 ISBN 13: 9789810248475

Casa editrice: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2002

Riassunto

During the last decade, scientists working in quantum theory have been engaging in promising new fields such as quantum computation and quantum information processing, and have also been reflecting on the possibilities of nonlinear behavior on the quantum level. These are challenging undertakings because (1) they will result in new solutions to important technical and practical problems that were unsolvable by the classical approaches (for example, quantum computers can calculate problems that are intractable if one uses classical computers); and (2) they open up new 'hard' problems of a fundamental nature that touch the foundation of quantum theory itself (for example, the contradiction between locality and nonlinearity and the interpretation of quantum computing as a universal process).In this book, one can distinguish two main streams of research to approach the just-mentioned problem field: (1) a theoretical structural part, which concentrates on the elaboration of a nonlinear quantum mechanics and the fundamentals of quantum computation; and (2) a theoretical experimental part, which focuses on the theoretical aspects of applications that arise from new technology and novel research perspectives such as quantum optics and quantum cryptography. Particular attention is also paid to the measurement problem, the classical limit and alternative interpretations (such as the hidden measurement approach).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9810248474
• ISBN 13: 9789810248475
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Redattore: Aerts Diederik
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