Quantum Probability Theory

[Philip Thrift]

May 2017 lecture notes: http://staff.utia.cas.cz/swart/lecture_notes/qua17_05_02.pdf

by Jan Swart [ http://staff.utia.cas.cz/swart/ ]

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Lectures on quantum probability (notes)

Quantum Probability Theory

In the summer semester 2017 I have taught Quantum Probability Theory (NMTP578) at the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, MFF, Charles University. Here are the lecture notes (final version). (Here are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh versions of the lecture notes.)

Here are the exams of June 30th, July 4th, and September 5th, with answers. Time for these exams was 3 hours. Exercises 2 (d) and 3 (d) of the exam of Sept. 5 are quite hard; in particular, a complete solution to Ex. 2 (d) cannot be expected within the time frame of the exam.

Here are the Lecture notes from 2013. Here are the Lecture notes from 2010. Here are the Lecture notes from 2007. Here is a Summary of Chapter 5. Here are the Exam of June 20, 2013, with solutions, Exam of June 25, 2008, Exam of September 18, 2008, with solutions, Exam of September 30, 2008, with solutions. Here is the Exam of June 22, 2007, with solutions. Here are Lecture notes from 2004 from a similar course taught at Erlangen University.

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[Philip Thrift]

(pg. 35)

The interpretation of quantum mechanics is notoriously difficult, and the interpretation we have just given is not undisputed. There is an extensive literature on the subject in which innumerably many different interpretations have been suggested, with the result that almost everything one can say on this subject has at some point been fiercely denied by someone. ... To add to the confusion, it is tradition to call the probability law ρ a ‘mixed state’, even though it is conceptually something very different from the states ω of classical probability.

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