... for themselves.
8 Introduction
1.7 Quantum measurements
A quantum theory of measurements is a necessary part of any consistent way of
understanding quantum theory for a fairly obvious reason. ... internal degrees of free-
CONSISTENT QUANTUM THEORY
Quantum mechanics is one of the most fundamental yet difficult subjects in modern
physics. In this book, nonrelativistic quantu...
... Dynamics and Quantum Theory (Saunders, Philadelphia, 3rd
edn., 1968).
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remain without a consistent fundamental interpretation.
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As is well known, the quantum electrodynamics that have b...
... substantial and lasting kind came to be made. The light of the new
quantum theory began to dawn.
Quantum theory
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Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction
‘John Polkinghorne has produced an ... sight seemed
Quantum theory
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very different in their characters, were, in fact, intimately linked
with each other. The way in which they could be combined to give a
consistent theo...
... waves.
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Chapter XX
Quantum theory of light
Quantum theory of light
§1. Blackbody radiation. Planck’s theory of radiation
§2. Photoelectric effect. Einstein’s theory of light
§3. Compton ... beginning of a new theory, the
quantum theory.
• In 1905 Einstein developed an analogue theory for light: Light consists
of photons, the energy of each photon is h
Einstein’s...
... are sometimes called quantum measurement theory. ” This is a
bad terminology: there can be no quantum measurement theory there is only
quantum mechanics. Either you use quantum mechanics to describe ... journals: the
relationship of quantum theory to thermodynamics and to information theory,
its correspondence with classical mechanics, and the emergence of irreversibility
and...
... preliminary hypothesis requires a quantum theory of localized states. Such
a theory – that of “local algebras” – is available from mathematical quantum field
theory (Haag and Kastler 1964). We ... is really pure
but unknown. If we were to try to apply the conventional interpretation of quantum
theory consistently to system and environment then we would have to say that when
we me...
... natural to
ask why quantum theory is the way it is. Quantum
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theory is simply a new type of probability theory.
Like classical probability theory it can be applied
to ... is quantum, not classical, it
is to be expected that quantum theory is ultimately
the more reasonable theory.
There are many reasons to look for better ax-
iomatic formu...
... now explore the mathematical structure underpinning quantum mechanics.
1.1.1 Mathematical foundations
In the standard formulation of quantum theory, the state of a physical system is described ... let’s remind ourselves of the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics as covered
in earlier courses. They are:
• Postulate 1: The state of a quantum- mechanical system is completely spec...