Decoherence and Quantum Measurement: The Missing Lecture
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02391v1
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 16:14:55 GMT
- Title: Decoherence and Quantum Measurement: The Missing Lecture
- Authors: Stephen D.H. Hsu
- Abstract summary: We give an elementary account of quantum measurement and related topics from the modern perspective of decoherence.
The discussion should be comprehensible to students who have completed a basic course in quantum mechanics with exposure to concepts such as Hilbert space, density matrices, and von Neumann projection.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: We give an elementary account of quantum measurement and related topics from
the modern perspective of decoherence. The discussion should be comprehensible
to students who have completed a basic course in quantum mechanics with
exposure to concepts such as Hilbert space, density matrices, and von Neumann
projection (``wavefunction collapse'').
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