Quantum Probability and Applications to the Quantum Theory of Irreversible Processes: Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Villa Mondragone, Italy, September 6–11, 1982

Some trends and problems in quantum probability....Pages 1-19
Scattering theory for quantum dynamical semigroups....Pages 20-31
Quantum stochastic processes....Pages 32-45
On dynamical semigroups and compact group actions....Pages 46-61
Irreversibility and chaos in quantum systems....Pages 62-75
Noncommutative integration and conditioning....Pages 76-85
Stochastic representation of thermal functionals....Pages 86-92
Statistical independence of local algebras....Pages 93-102
On the problem of non configurational observables in stochastic mechanics....Pages 103-112
Markovian limits of multi time correlation functions for open quantum systems....Pages 113-118
On stationary markov dilations of quantum dynamical semigroups (some remarks inspired by the workshop)....Pages 119-125
A model of irreversible deterministic quantum dynamics....Pages 126-133
Probability and quantum mechanics the conceptual foundations of stochastic mechanics....Pages 134-145
Kolmogorovian statistical invariants for the aspect-rapisarda experiment....Pages 146-152
Covariant measurements and imprimitivity systems....Pages 153-172
Construction of quantum diffusions....Pages 173-198
The analytic continuation of a osterwalder-schrader positive representation of the euclidean group to a representation of the poincare group....Pages 199-205
Appendix: A connection between quantum systems and stochastic processes....Pages 206-209
Extensions of gleason theorem....Pages 210-227
Examples of markov dilations over the 2×2 matrices....Pages 228-244
Hamiltonian models of classical and quantum stochastic processes....Pages 245-276
Quantum entropy and irreversibility....Pages 277-288
Quantum ergodic theorems....Pages 289-300
The quantum measurement process and the observation of continuous trajectories....Pages 301-326
Generalized transition probabilities and applications....Pages 327-335
Some remarks on quantum logics and ordered vector spaces....Pages 336-339
A hierarchy of mixing properties for non-commutative K-systems....Pages 340-351
Type and normality properties of some infrared representations....Pages 352-355
Quantum theory of continuous measurements....Pages 356-364
On the implementability of certain positive maps....Pages 365-376
Energy versus entropy balance arguments in classical lattice systems....Pages 377-383
Ito solution of the linear quantum stochastic differential equation describing light emission and absorption....Pages 384-411