Hilbert space representations of decoherence functionals and quantum measures

DOI10.2478/S12175-012-0074-1zbMATH Open1274.81014arXiv1011.1694OpenAlexW2083735354MaRDI QIDQ4902247FDOQ4902247

Authors: Stan Gudder 

Publication date: 25 January 2013

Published in: Mathematica Slovaca (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that any decoherence functional $D$ can be represented by a spanning vector-valued measure on a complex Hilbert space. Moreover, this representation is unique up to an isomorphism when the system is finite. We consider the natural map $U$ from the history Hilbert space $K$ to the standard Hilbert space $H$ of the usual quantum formulation. We show that $U$ is an isomorphism from $K$ onto a closed subspace of $H$ and that $U$ is an isomorphism from $K$ onto $H$ if and only if the representation is spanning. We then apply this work to show that a quantum measure has a Hilbert space representation if and only if it is strongly positive. We also discuss classical decoherence functionals, operator-valued measures and quantum operator measures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1694

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum measuresdecoherence functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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