Lectures on the Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics I

By Gianfausto Dell'Antonio

Elements of the history of Quantum Mechanics I.- Elements of the history of Quantum Mechanics II.- Axioms, states, observables, measurement, difficulties.- Entanglement, decoherence, Bell's inequalities, alternative theories.- Automorphisms; Quantum dynamics; Theorems of Wigner, Kadison, Segal; Continuity and
generators.- Operators on Hilbert spaces I; Basic elements.- Quadratic forms.- Properties of free motion, Anholonomy,
Geometric phase.- Elements of C ∗-algebras, GNS representation,
automorphisms and dynamical systems.- Derivations and generators. K.M.S. condition. Elements of modular structure. Standard form.- Semigroups and dissipations. Markov approximation.- Quantum dynamical semigroups I.- Positivity preserving contraction semigroups on C ∗-algebras.- Conditional expectations.- Complete Dissipations.- Weyl system, Weyl algebra, lifting symplectic maps.- Magnetic Weyl algebra.- A Theorem of Segal.- Representations of Bargmann, Segal, Fock.- Second quantization.- Other quantizations (deformation, geometric).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462391173
• ISBN13: 9789462391178
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Atlantis Press
• Length: 459 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"