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5 - Measurement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Claude Fabre
Affiliation:
Sorbonne Université, Paris
Rodrigo G. Cortiñas
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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This chapter presents the theoretical framework, based on Gleason’s theorem, allowing to describegeneralized measurements, in addition to von Neumann measurements, in terms of POVMs, probability operators and post-measurement operators. It mentions the Naimark theorem according to which a generalized measurement is a von Neumann measurement if one describes it in a Hilbert space of higher dimension. Examples of generalized measurements are given: imperfect measurements, simultaneous measurements of noncommuting operators. It presents the Zurek model that accounts for the decoherence process occurring in a measurement and shows that the quantum measurement process, including state collapse, is not a physical evolution. Finally, it studies the case of successive measurements using Bayes statistics in which the state collapse appears as an updating of the information about a system, and the fundamental property of repeatability of quantum mechanics.

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Quantum Processes and Measurement
Theory and Experiment
, pp. 66 - 103
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Measurement
  • Claude Fabre, Sorbonne Université, Paris
  • With contributions by Rodrigo G. Cortiñas
  • Book: Quantum Processes and Measurement
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774918.006
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  • Measurement
  • Claude Fabre, Sorbonne Université, Paris
  • With contributions by Rodrigo G. Cortiñas
  • Book: Quantum Processes and Measurement
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774918.006
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  • Measurement
  • Claude Fabre, Sorbonne Université, Paris
  • With contributions by Rodrigo G. Cortiñas
  • Book: Quantum Processes and Measurement
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774918.006
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