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Record Nr.

UNISA996466524403316

Autore

Biane Philippe

Titolo

Quantum Potential Theory [[electronic resource] /] / by Philippe Biane, Luc Bouten, Fabio Cipriani, Norio Konno, Quanhua Xu ; edited by Uwe Franz, Michael Schuermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008

ISBN

3-540-69365-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 464 p. 18 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1954

Classificazione

MAT 310f

PHY 020f

SI 850

58B3481R6031C1253C21

Disciplina

515.96

Soggetti

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Quantum physics

Quantum computers

Spintronics

Differential geometry

Potential theory (Mathematics)

Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds

Quantum Physics

Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

Differential Geometry

Potential Theory

Greifswald (2007)

Kongress.

Greifswald <2007>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume contains the revised and completed notes of lectures given at the school 'Quantum Potential Theory: Structure and Applications to Physics, ' held at the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald from February 26 to March 10, 2007"--P. [4] of cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Potential Theory in Classical Probability -- to Random Walks on Noncommutative Spaces -- Interactions between Quantum Probability and Operator Space Theory -- Dirichlet Forms on Noncommutative Spaces -- Applications of Quantum Stochastic Processes in Quantum Optics -- Quantum Walks.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains the revised and completed notes of lectures given at the school "Quantum Potential Theory: Structure and Applications to Physics," held at the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald from February 26 to March 10, 2007. Quantum potential theory studies noncommutative (or quantum) analogs of classical potential theory. These lectures provide an introduction to this theory, concentrating on probabilistic potential theory and it quantum analogs, i.e. quantum Markov processes and semigroups, quantum random walks, Dirichlet forms on C* and von Neumann algebras, and boundary theory. Applications to quantum physics, in particular the filtering problem in quantum optics, are also presented.