Saturday, 23 September 2017

Lecture 01 - Axioms of Quantum Mechanics (Schuller's Lectures on Quantum Theory)

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Summary of contents: brief comparison of classical and quantum mechanics; discrete and continuous spectrum; impact of measurement on the observation; Stern-Gerlach experiment; probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical predictions; axioms of quantum mechanics; quantum systems and states; pure and mixed states; complex Hilbert space; sesqui-linear inner product; completeness; operators: domain, densely defined, positive, trace-class; observables; adjoint operators and self-adjoint operators; measurement; projection-valued measure; unitary dynamics; evolution operator; projective dynamics.

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