Quantum probability was developed in the 1980s as a noncommutative analog of the Kolmogorovian theory of stochastic processes.[1][2][3][4][5] One of its aims is to clarify the mathematical foundations of quantum theory and its statistical interpretation.[6][7]
A significant recent application to physics is the dynamical solution of the quantum measurement problem,[8][9] by giving constructive models of quantum observation processes which resolve many famous paradoxes of quantum mechanics.
Some recent advances are based on quantum filtering[10] and feedback control theory as applications of quantum stochastic calculus.
Orthodox quantum mechanics
Orthodox quantum mechanics has two seemingly contradictory mathematical descriptions:
deterministic unitary time evolution (governed by the Schrödinger equation) and
stochastic (random) wavefunction collapse.
Most physicists are not concerned with this apparent problem. Physical intuition usually provides the answer, and only in unphysical systems (e.g., Schrödinger's cat, an isolated atom) do paradoxes seem to occur.
Orthodox quantum mechanics can be reformulated in a quantum-probabilistic framework, where quantum filtering theory (see Bouten et al.[11][12] for introduction or Belavkin, 1970s[13][14][15]) gives the natural description of the measurement process. This new framework encapsulates the standard postulates of quantum mechanics, and thus all of the science involved in the orthodox postulates.
Motivation
In classical probability theory, information is summarized by the sigma-algebra F of events in a classical probability space (Ω, F,P). For example, F could be the σ-algebra σ(X) generated by a random variable X, which contains all the information on the values taken by X. We wish to describe quantum information in similar algebraic terms, in such a way as to capture the non-commutative features and the information made available in an experiment. The appropriate algebraic structure for observables, or more generally operators, is a *-algebra. A (unital) *- algebra is a complex vector space A of operators on a Hilbert space H that
contains the identity I and
is closed under composition (a multiplication) and adjoint (an involution *): a ∈ A implies a* ∈ A.
A state P on A is a linear functional P : A → C (where C is the field of complex numbers) such that 0 ≤ P(a* a) for all a ∈ A (positivity) and P(I) = 1 (normalization). A projection is an element p ∈ A such that p2 = p = p*.
Mathematical definition
The basic definition in quantum probability is that of a quantum probability space, sometimes also referred to as an algebraic or noncommutative probability space.
Definition : Quantum probability space.
A quantum probability space is a pair (A, P), where A is a *-algebra and P is a state.
This definition is a generalization of the definition of a probability space in Kolmogorovian probability theory, in the sense that every (classical) probability space gives rise to a quantum probability space if A is chosen as the *-algebra of almost everywhere bounded complex-valued measurable functions .
The idempotents p ∈ A are the events in A, and P(p) gives the probability of the event p.
See also
Gleason's theorem
Probability amplitude
References
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V. P. Belavkin (2000). "Dynamical Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem, Causality, and Paradoxes of the Quantum Century". Open Systems and Information Dynamics. 7 (2): 101–129.arXiv:quant-ph/0512187. doi:10.1023/A:1009663822827.
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Bouten, Luc; Van Handel, Ramon; James, Matthew R. (2007). "An Introduction to Quantum Filtering". SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 46 (6): 2199–2241.arXiv:math/0601741. doi:10.1137/060651239. ISSN 0363-0129.
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Further reading
Khrennikov, Andrei Y. (2009). "Classical (Kolmogorovian) and Quantum (Born) Probability". Ubiquitous Quantum Structure : From Psychology to Finance. Berlin: Springer. pp. 19–40. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-05101-2_2. ISBN 978-3-642-05100-5.
Szabó, László E. (2001). "Critical Reflections on Quantum Probability Theory". In Rédei, Miklós; Stöltzner, Michael (eds.). John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics. Boston: Kluwer. pp. 201–219. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-2012-0_13. ISBN 0-7923-6812-6.
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