Lecture: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Lecturer: David Gross. Exercises: Lionel Dmello. Times and venue: Wed, Thur 12pm (alternating one / two lectures per week, 3SWS), Seminarraum 0.03, Theoretical Physics Building.

Announcements

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Course description

The course will cover the properties of quantum mechanics that are fundamentally different from any classical theory. This contrasts with the usual QM classes, where the goal is to treat specific systems; and with Quantum Information Theory, where the focus lies on ways to exploit quantum behavior for computation and communication.

Topics are:

• Contextuality, Bell inequalities, and "quantum non-locality"
• Causality and its interaction with quantum probability
• Uncertainty relations and their interpretation
• The problem of joint measurability
• No-cloning
• Generalized Probabilistic Theories, post-quantum correlations and their convex geometry
• Measurement theory and decoherence
• Projective representations of symmetries

Resources

• None yet.

Exercises

• …sheets will be uploaded here.

Organization

• The lecture is good for 6 ECTS points.
• Every second week, one of the slots will be an exercise class.
• This lecture was held before.