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quantum logic

Contents

Idea

Quantum logic refers either to

  • any formal framework which is supposed to be able to express the statements whose semantics is the totality of all what is verifiable by measurement in a quantum system;

  • the quantum logic of von Neumann in which the propositions are given by projections to closed subspaces of a Hilbert space;

  • the engineering units of quantum computing (analogue of logical gates in the usual computing).

Approaches

Birkhoff-von Neumann quantum logic

It is based on the setting the Hilbert lattice (of closed suspaces of a Hilbert space) to represent the set of propositions of quantum system.

Topos theoretic approaches to quantum mechanics

See at Bohr topos for more.

Other approaches

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Literature

Related entries quantum mechanics, Kochen-Specker theorem, Gleason's theorem, quantale, Bohrification

Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy: quantum logic and probability theory, quantum mechanics (abbrev. qm), qm: Kochen-Specker theorem, qm: von Neumann vs. Dirac, qm: Bohmian mechanics, qm:colapse theories, Copenhagen interpretation of qm, many-world interpretation of qm, modal-interpretations of qm, Everett’s relative-state formulation of qm

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  • I. Pitowsky, Quantum probability — quantum logic, Springer Lecture Notes in Physics 321

  • A. Gleason, Measures on the closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics 6: 885-893 (1957)

  • Samuel S. Holland Jr., Orthomodularity in infinite dimensions; a theorem of M. Solèr, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 32 (1995) 205-234, arXiv:math.RA/9504224

  • Yu. Manin, A course in mathematical logic, Springer

  • Д.И. Блохинцев, Принципиальные вопросы квантовой механики, 1966, 162 с.

  • Chris Heunen, Klaas Landsman, Bas Spitters, A topos for algebraic quantum theory, Comm. Math. Phys. 291:63–110, 2009, free access doi, arXiv:0709.4364

  • A. Sudbery, Quantum mechanics and the particles of nature, An outline for mathematicians, Camb. Univ. Press 1986

  • Steve Vickers, slides from Midland Grad. School 2010, quantum topos theory, web, most relevant part IV: pdf

Revised on July 2, 2012 12:35:52 by Urs Schreiber (89.204.137.148)