文档介绍：THE MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGE
OF QUANTUM THEORY
For almost every student of physics, their first course on quantum theory raises puz-
zling questions and creates an uncertain picture of the quantum world. This book
presents a clear and detailed exposition of the fundamental concepts of quantum
theory: states, effects, observables, channels and instruments. It introduces several
up-to-date topics, such as state discrimination, quantum tomography, measurement
disturbance and entanglement distillation. A separate chapter is devoted to quan-
tum entanglement. The theory is illustrated with numerous examples, reflecting
recent developments in the field. The treatment emphasizes quantum information,
though its general approach makes it a useful resource for graduate students and
researchers in all subfields of quantum theory. Focusing on mathematically precise
formulations, the book summarizes the relevant mathematics.
TEIKO HEINOSAARI is a researcher in the Turku Centre for Quantum Physics
of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Turku, Finland.
His research focuses on quantum measurements and quantum information theory.
MÁRIO ZIMAN is a researcher in the Research Center for Quantum Information
at the Institute of Physics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, and lec-
tures at the Faculty of Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno. His research
interests include the foundations of quantum physics, quantum estimations and
quantum information theory.
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