ON THE NOTION OF COEXISTENCE IN QUANTUM MECHANICS

Mathematica Slovaca

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 665-680

  Busch, Paul ^a   Kiukas, Jukka ^b   Lahti, Pekka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

coexistent observables; joint measurability; noncommutativity; unsharpness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957957447     PISSN: 01399918     EISSN: 13372211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s12175-010-0039-1     Document Type: Article

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