Preface |
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1.1 Interplay of Psychology and Physics: Historical Overview |
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1 | (5) |
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6 | (2) |
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1.3 Quantum-Like Modeling of Cognition and Decision Making |
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8 | (4) |
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1.3.1 From Probabilistic Foundations of Quantum Mechanics to Quantum-Like Modeling |
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8 | (2) |
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1.3.2 Quantum-Like Models Outside Physics |
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10 | (2) |
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1.4 Operational Formalism: Creation and Annihilation Operators |
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12 | (1) |
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1.5 Social Laser as a Fruit of the Quantum Information Revolution |
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13 | (2) |
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1.6 Bose--Einstein Statistics of Information Excitations |
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15 | (5) |
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1.7 Powerful Information Flows as the Basic Condition of Social Laser Functioning |
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20 | (1) |
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1.8 Resonators of Physical and Social Lasers |
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20 | (3) |
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2 Social Laser Model for Stimulated Amplification of Social Actions |
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23 | (16) |
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2.1 What Can Be Expected from the Social Laser Model? |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (3) |
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2.3 Democratic Social Protests |
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28 | (1) |
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2.4 Social Energy Pumping |
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29 | (6) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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2.7 Conflating Opposition Protests with Warfare |
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37 | (2) |
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3 Basics of Physical Lasing |
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39 | (4) |
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3.1 Laser: History of Invention |
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39 | (1) |
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3.2 Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (2) |
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4 Basics of Social Lasing |
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43 | (18) |
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45 | (3) |
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4.1.1 Energy of Social Atoms |
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46 | (1) |
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4.1.2 Energy of the Quantum Information Field |
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47 | (1) |
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4.2 Quantum Field Representation of the Information Flow Generated by Mass Media |
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48 | (1) |
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4.3 Coloring Information Excitations |
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49 | (3) |
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4.4 From Rough-Coloring to Indistinguishability |
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52 | (1) |
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4.5 The Role of Emotions in Transition to the Indistinguishability Mode: Illustration by Military and Revolutionary Propaganda |
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53 | (1) |
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4.6 Hidden Variables: Genuine Quantum versus Quantum-Like Models |
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54 | (2) |
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4.7 Coloring Role: Pumping versus Emission |
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56 | (1) |
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4.8 Comparing Stimulated Emission in Quantum Physics and the Bandwagon Effect in Psychology and Social Science |
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57 | (2) |
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4.9 Social Lasing Schematically |
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59 | (2) |
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5 Information Thermodynamics |
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61 | (8) |
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5.1 Thermodynamics from Combinatorics of State Distribution |
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61 | (2) |
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5.2 Thermodynamics of Distinguishable Systems |
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63 | (2) |
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5.3 Thermodynamics of Indistinguishable Systems |
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65 | (4) |
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67 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Possible Statistics |
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67 | (2) |
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6 Thermodynamical Approach to Modeling Population Inversion for Social Laser |
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69 | (16) |
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6.1 Einstein Coefficients and Balance Equation for Human Gain Medium Interacting with Information Field |
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70 | (3) |
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6.2 Balance Equation for Steady State and Population Inversion |
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73 | (3) |
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6.3 Information Laser: The Four-Level Model |
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76 | (7) |
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6.3.1 Radiative versus Nonradiative Emission for Physical Atoms |
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76 | (1) |
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6.3.2 Mental Analogues of Radiative and Nonradiative Emissions |
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77 | (1) |
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6.3.3 Balance Equation for Steady State and Population Inversion |
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78 | (5) |
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83 | (2) |
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85 | (22) |
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7.1 Resonators of Physical Lasers |
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86 | (2) |
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7.1.1 Spontaneous Initiation of Physical Lasing |
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86 | (1) |
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7.1.2 Stimulated Initiation of Physical Lasing |
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87 | (1) |
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7.2 Resonators of Social Lasers |
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88 | (6) |
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7.2.1 Structure and Functioning of the Social Resonator |
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89 | (1) |
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7.2.1.1 Output beam from the echo chamber |
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90 | (1) |
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7.2.1.2 On a spatial picture of quantum physical processes |
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90 | (1) |
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7.2.2 Stimulated Initiation of Social Lasing |
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91 | (1) |
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7.2.3 Spontaneous Initiation of Social Lasing and Elimination of "Wrongly Colored" Information Excitations |
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92 | (1) |
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7.2.4 Energy Spectrum of the Output Beam: Physical versus Social Lasing |
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93 | (1) |
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7.3 Dynamics of the Quantum Information Field in the Social Laser Resonator |
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94 | (10) |
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7.3.1 Creation-Annihilation Algebras for s-Atoms and Quantum Information Field |
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96 | (1) |
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7.3.2 Dynamics of the Compound System s-Atom Field |
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97 | (2) |
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7.3.3 Gorini--Kossakowski--Sudarshan--Lindblad Equation for the State of the Quantum Information Field |
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99 | (1) |
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7.3.4 Social Interpretation of Assumptions for Derivation of Quantum Master Equation |
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100 | (2) |
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7.3.5 Probabilistic Consequences of the Quantum Markov Dynamics |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (3) |
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8 Correspondence between Notions and Parameters of the Theories of Physical and Social Lasers |
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107 | (24) |
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8.1 Laser as a Quantum System |
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109 | (7) |
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8.1.1 Bosonic and Fermionic Creation and Annihilation Operators in Laser Modeling |
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109 | (1) |
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8.1.2 Semiclassical Modeling of the Dynamics of the Laser Photon Field |
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110 | (3) |
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8.1.3 Characterization of the Coherence Properties of a Laser Beam with the Aid of Correlation Functions of the First and Second Order |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (1) |
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8.2 Laser as a Resonant Amplifier and a Generator: The Role of Positive Feedback |
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116 | (5) |
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8.2.1 Cavity Quality Factor |
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117 | (1) |
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8.2.2 Dynamics of Laser Beam Intensity |
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118 | (1) |
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8.2.3 Laser Oscillation Conditions |
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119 | (1) |
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8.2.4 Spontaneous Emission, Coherence, and Linewidth |
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120 | (1) |
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8.3 Correspondence between Structures and Parameters of Physical Laser and Information (Social) Laser |
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121 | (6) |
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8.3.1 Specification of the Basic Parameters of Physical Laser |
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123 | (1) |
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8.3.2 General Correspondence between Information and Physical Laser |
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124 | (3) |
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8.4 Laser Characteristics: Heuristic Pictures |
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127 | (4) |
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127 | (2) |
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8.4.2 The Role of the Lasing Threshold |
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129 | (2) |
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9 Freudian Approach to Psychic Energy |
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131 | (10) |
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9.1 On the Notion of Representation According to Freud |
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132 | (9) |
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9.1.1 The Three Levels or Orders of a Representation: Introduction |
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132 | (2) |
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9.1.2 On the First Representation Level or Order |
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134 | (5) |
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9.1.3 On the Second and Third Representation Level or Order |
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139 | (2) |
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10 Introduction to Quantum Theory |
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141 | (36) |
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10.1 Classical Probability Theory: Kolmogorov's Measure-Theoretic Axiomatics |
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142 | (3) |
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10.2 Mathematical Structure of Quantum Theory |
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145 | (5) |
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10.2.1 Complex Hilbert Space |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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10.2.3 Representation of (Pure) States by Normalized Vectors |
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147 | (1) |
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10.2.4 Representation of Mixed States by Density Operators |
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148 | (1) |
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10.2.5 Hilbert Space of Square Integrable Functions |
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149 | (1) |
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10.3 Postulates of Quantum Mechanics |
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150 | (5) |
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10.3.1 Projection Postulate, von Neumann versus Luders |
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154 | (1) |
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10.4 Operator Quantization: From Functions on Classical Phase Space to Hermitian Operators |
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155 | (1) |
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10.5 Two Basic Interpretations of a Quantum State |
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156 | (2) |
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10.6 Conditional Probability in Quantum Formalism |
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158 | (1) |
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10.7 Conditional Probability for Observables with a Nondegenerate Spectrum |
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159 | (2) |
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10.7.1 Independence of the Initial State |
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160 | (1) |
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10.7.2 Matrix of Transition Probabilities: Symmetric |
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160 | (1) |
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10.7.3 Matrix of Transition Probabilities: Double Stochasticity |
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160 | (1) |
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10.8 Interference of Probabilities for Incompatible Observables |
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161 | (1) |
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10.9 Logic of Quantum Propositions |
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162 | (2) |
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10.10 Tensor Product of Hilbert Spaces and Linear Operators |
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164 | (2) |
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10.11 Ket and Bra Vectors: Dirac's Symbolism |
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166 | (1) |
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10.12 Quantum Bit: Using State Superposition for Information Encoding |
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167 | (1) |
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10.13 Entanglement of Pure and Mixed Quantum States |
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168 | (1) |
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10.14 Two-Slit Experiment and Violation of the Classical Law of Total Probability |
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169 | (8) |
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10.14.1 On the Possibility of Classical Probabilistic Description of Quantum Experiments |
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169 | (3) |
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10.14.2 Interference of Wave Functions |
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172 | (5) |
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11 QBism: Subjective Probabilistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics |
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177 | (24) |
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180 | (2) |
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11.2 Quantum Theory as Subjective Probability Machinery |
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182 | (6) |
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188 | (1) |
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11.4 Comparing QBism and the Vaxjo Interpretation |
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188 | (2) |
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11.5 QBism Agents: Who Are You? |
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190 | (1) |
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11.6 QBism versus Copenhagen |
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191 | (2) |
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11.7 QBism versus the Information Interpretation of Zeilinger and Brukner |
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193 | (1) |
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11.8 Interpretations of Classical Probability Theory |
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194 | (3) |
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11.8.1 Kolmogorov's Interpretation of Probability |
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194 | (1) |
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11.8.2 Subjective Interpretation of Probability |
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195 | (1) |
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11.8.2.1 Subjective interpretation and mathematical representation of probabilities by measures |
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195 | (1) |
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11.8.2.2 Subjective probability as the basis of classical physics? |
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196 | (1) |
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11.9 QBism's Role in the Justification of Applications of Quantum Theory Outside of Physics |
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197 | (4) |
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12 Decision Making: Quantum-Like Model of Lottery Selection |
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201 | (34) |
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12.1 Lottery Selection: Why Quantum Probability? |
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202 | (6) |
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12.2 Classical versus Quantum (Subjective) Expected Utility |
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208 | (3) |
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12.3 Quantum Formalization of Selection of Lotteries |
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211 | (4) |
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12.3.1 Conventional Approach Based on Classical Probability |
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211 | (1) |
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12.3.2 Belief-State Space |
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212 | (2) |
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12.3.3 Transition Probabilities |
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214 | (1) |
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12.4 Dynamical Origin of Phases |
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215 | (2) |
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12.5 Belief State of a Decision Maker |
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217 | (2) |
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12.6 Operator Representation of the Process of Comparison of Lotteries |
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219 | (4) |
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12.7 Analysis of Operator-Based Comparison of Lotteries |
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223 | (4) |
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12.8 Lotteries with Two Outcomes: Uniform Probability Distribution |
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227 | (3) |
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12.9 Lotteries with Two Outcomes: General Case |
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230 | (1) |
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12.10 Mathematical Calculations |
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231 | (2) |
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233 | (2) |
References |
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Index |
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