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arXiv:quant-ph/0107090 · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks

Quantum Measurement, Information, and Completely Positive Maps

Masanao Ozawa

Published Feb 24, 2006• 4 citations
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Abstract

Axiomatic approach to measurement theory is developed. All the possible statistical properties of apparatuses measuring an observable with nondegenerate spectrum allowed in standard quantum mechanics are characterized.
DOI
10.1007/0-306-47114-0_15

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