Quantum Institute: Visitor Schedule

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121. For more information, contact Diego Dalvit.

November 30, 2006
12:30 PM

James Hartle,
University of California

Negative Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

This talk will describe how probability theory can be extended to incorporate negative probabilities, and how this extension can be used to formulate and generalize the decoherent histories formulation of the quantum mechanics of closed systems.