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1 - Introduction to Quantum Measurement Theory
Andrei Khrennikov, Linnaeus University
Book:

Contextual Reinterpretation of Quantum Nonlocality

Published online:

28 November 2024

Print publication:

05 December 2024, pp 1-10
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Summary

This short chapter contains basics of the mathematical formalism for thequantum measurement theory. In this book we proceed mainly withthe von Neumann measurement theory in which observables are given byHermitian operators and the state update by projections. However, we alsomention the measurement formalism based on quantum instruments, sinceit gives the general framework for quantum measurements. This formalismis used only in Chapters 10 and 18. The latter chapter is devoted to quantum-likemodeling – the applications of the mathematical formalism and methodologyof quantum mechanics (QM) to cognition, psychology, and decision making.Surprisingly, in such applications even the simplest effects can’t be described bythe von Neumann theory. One should use quantum instruments (compare withquantum physics where the main body of theory can be presented solelywithin the von Neumann measurement theory).