On tracial operator representations of quantum decoherence functionals

DOI10.1063/1.532157MaRDI QIDQ4378310zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Rudolph, J. D. Maitland Wright

Publication date 4 March 1998

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9706001

zbMATH Keywords

Isham-Linden-Schreckenberg representationlattice of projection operatorsquantum history theoryspace of decoherence functionalsspace of histories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

Abstract: A general `quantum history theory' can be characterised by the space of histories and by the space of decoherence functionals. In this note we consider the situation where the space of histories is given by the lattice of projection operators on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space $H$. We study operator representations for decoherence functionals on this space of histories. We first give necessary and sufficient conditions for a decoherence functional being representable by a trace class operator on $HotimesH$, an infinite dimensional analogue of the Isham-Linden-Schreckenberg representation for finite dimensions. Since this excludes many decoherence functionals of physical interest, we then identify the large and physically important class of decoherence functionals which can be represented, canonically, by bounded operators on $HotimesH$.

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