Probabilistic theories: What is special about quantum mechanics?

Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement

Volumn 9780521898768, Issue , 2010, Pages 85-126

  D’Ariano, Giacomo Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES; ORTHOGONAL PROJECTION OPERATOR; ORTHOMODULAR LATTICES; PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE; PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS; REPRESENTATION THEOREM;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 84926131248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511676550.007     Document Type: Chapter

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