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Spectral measure

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Summary

A normalized, countably additive projection-valued measure EE on a measurable space, with E(Ω)=IE(\Omega)=I and mutually orthogonal projections on disjoint sets.

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Canonically induces

Notes

A spectral measure is a projection-valued measure, hence a special POVM.

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Self-adjoint operatorSpectral measure

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Authored explanation

The spectral theorem associates a projection-valued measure to a self-adjoint operator.

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Apply a standard functorial or canonical construction whose output is not merely a reduct of the input and is not generally an equivalent presentation of the same object.

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Spectral measureQuantum measurement

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Projection-valued measures represent ideal sharp measurements.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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