Statistics of continuous trajectories in quantum mechanics: Operation-valued stochastic processes
Tóm tắt
A formalism developed in previous papers for the description of continual observations of some quantities in the framework of quantum mechanics is reobtained and generalized, starting from a more axiomatic point of view. The statistics of the observations of continuous state trajectories is treated from the beginning as a generalized stochastic process in the sense of Gel'fand. An effect-valued measure and an operation-valued measure on the σ-algebra generated by the cylinder sets in the space of trajectories are introduced. The properties of the characteristic functional for the “operation-valued stochastic process” are discussed and, through a suitableansatz, a significant class of such processes is explicitly constructed, which contains the examples of the preceding papers as particular cases.
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