Quantum Measurement of a Single System by Orly Alter, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
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- Pub. Date: May 2001
- Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
- Format: Hardcover, 136pp
- ISBN-13: 9780471283089
- ISBN: 0471283088
Synopsis
Alter (genetics, Stanford U.) and Yamamoto (applied physics and electrical engineering, Stanford U.) establish the quantum theoretical limits to the information that can be obtained from measuring a single system. They argue that the information about the unknown quantum wavefunction of the system in limited to estimates of the expectation values of the measured observables, where the estimate errors satisfy the uncertainty principle.
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ORLY ALTER, PhD, is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. YOSHIHISA YAMAMOTO, PhD, is a professor in the Departments of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is currently the director of the ICORP Quantum Entanglement Project of the Japanese Science and Technology (JST) Corporation. While they collaborated on the research presented in this book, Yamamoto was the director of the ERATO Quantum Fluctuation Project of JST, and Alter was a doctoral student at the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford. She was selected as a finalist for the American Physical Society Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular or Optical Physics for 1998 for this work.
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