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Reference Work Entry In depth
Conditioning of Quantum Open Systems
The underlying probabilistic theory for quantum mechanics is non-Kolmogorovian. The time-order in which physical observables are measured will be important if they are incompatible (non-commuting). In particul...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Conditioning of Quantum Open Systems
The underlying probabilistic theory for quantum mechanics is non-Kolmogorovian. The time-order in which physical observables are measured will be important if they are incompatible (non-commuting). In particul...
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Article
Open AccessA Trotter-Kato theorem for quantum Markov limits
Using the Trotter-Kato theorem we prove the convergence of the unitary dynamics generated by an increasingly singular Hamiltonian in the case of a single field coupling. The limit dynamics is a quantum stochas...
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Singular Perturbation of Quantum Stochastic Differential Equations with Coupling Through an Oscillator Mode
We consider a physical system which is coupled indirectly to a Markovian resevoir through an oscillator mode. This is the case, for example, in the usual model of an atomic sample in a leaky optical cavity whi...
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Quantum Flows as Markovian Limit of Emission, Absorption and Scattering Interactions
We consider a Markovian approximation, of weak coupling type, to an open system perturbation involving emission, absorption and scattering by reservoir quanta. The result is the general form for a quantum stoc...
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Stochastic Schrödinger Equations as Limit of Discrete Filtering
We consider an open model possessing a Markovian quantum stochastic limit and derive the limit stochastic Schrödinger equations for the wave function conditioned on indirect observations using only the von Neu...
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Holevo-Ordering and the Continuous-Time Limit for Open Floquet Dynamics
We consider an atomic beam reservoir as a source of quantum noise. The atoms are modelled as two-state systems and interact one-at-a-time with the system. The Floquet operators are described in terms of the Fe...
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Reflections on Skemp’s contributions to mathematical education
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Stochastic Canonical Flows
There has been some opposition to the use of Markov processes in quantum mechanics based upon the fact that no quantum mechanical regression principle can be applied. It is argued here however that one may jus...
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Opinion: ‘Learning Technologies’? ‘Convergent Technologies’? What Do These Mean?
Sometimes in curriculum development, and everyday usage, a new term, or new piece of jargon, springs into common use, and everyone seems to know what it means, yet no one can give a clear definition of just wh...
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The Stratonovich Interpretation of Quantum Stochastic Approximations
The Stratonovich version of non-commutative stochastic calculus is introduced and shown to be equivalent to the Itô version developed by Hudson and Parthasarathy [1]. The conversion from Stratonovich to Itô ve...
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Tolkien's Creation Myth in The Silmarillion—Northern or Not?
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Quantum Stochastic Linearization of Multi-Linear Interactions
The weak coupling limit for a quantum system, with discrete spectrum, in interaction with a quantum field reservoir is considered. Depending on the nature of the reservoir (i.e. bosonic or fermionic) and the d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Type test elimination using typeflow analysis
Programs written in languages of the Oberon family usually contain runtime tests on the dynamic type of variables. In some cases it may be desirable to reduce the number of such tests. Typeflow analysis is a stat...
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Rivalry, rejection, and recovery: Variations of the Cinderella story
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Tapestries of image and emotion: The novels of Christobel Mattingley
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Poems in a context: breaking the anthology trap
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An interview with John Christopher
John Christopher is a well known, prize-winning writer. His adult novelThe Death of Grass was runner-up for the International Fantasy Award when Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings won first prize. Similarly his child...
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C S Lewis and the problem of David Holbrook