Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Processing in (linear) systems with stochastic input

Cătălin Silviu Nuțu, Tiberiu Axinte

Published Dec 14, 2016• 1 citation

Abstract

The paper is providing a different approach to real-world systems, such as micro and macro systems of our real life, where the man has little or no influence on the system, either not knowing the rules of the respective system or not knowing the input of the system, being thus mainly only spectator of the system’s output. In such a system, the input of the system and the laws ruling the system could be only “guessed”, based on intuition or previous knowledge of the analyzer of the respective system. But, as we will see in the paper, it exists also another, more theoretical and hence scientific way to approach the matter of the real-world systems, and this approach is mostly based on the theory related to Schrödinger’s equation and the wave function associated with it and quantum mechanics as well. The main results of the paper are regarding the utilization of the Schrödinger’s equation and related theory but also of the Quantum mechanics, in modeling real-life and real-world systems.

DOI: 10.1117/12.2240955

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