Overview
- Selected for the 2015 Dissertation-Prize Symposium of the German Physical Society
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD Thesis by the University of Siegen
- Accessible pedagogical presentation for newcomers to quantum foundations
- Contains a concise and self-contained review of the most recent advances on the hidden variable problem and foundations of quantum mechanics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
In this thesis, the main approach to the characterization of the set of classical probabilities, the correlation polytope approach, is reviewed for different scenarios, namely, hidden variable models discussed by Bell (local), Kochen and Specker (non-contextual), and Leggett and Garg (macrorealist). Computational difficulties associated with the method are described and a method to overcome them in several nontrivial cases is presented. For the quantum case, a general method to analyze quantum correlations in the sequential measurement scenario is provided, which allows computation of the maximal correlations.
Such a method has a direct application for computation of maximal quantum violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities and it is relevant in the analysis of non-contextuality tests. Finally, possible applications of the results for quantum information tasks are discussed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Temporal Quantum Correlations and Hidden Variable Models
Authors: Costantino Budroni
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24169-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24167-8Published: 04 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37417-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24169-2Published: 22 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 114
Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics