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Algebra of Observables and State Space

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Historically, operators first made their appearance in the construction of quantum mechanics (in Heisenberg’s matrix formulation) as operators (or matrices) corresponding to physical observables; it was only later (in the work of Schrödinger and subsequently Born and von Neumann) that the modern notion of a physical state took shape.

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  1. U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University, USSR

    N. N. Bogolubov & A. A. Logunov

  2. Institute for High Energy Physics, Moscow, USSR

    A. I. Oksak

  3. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Bulgarian Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria

    I. T. Todorov

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  1. N. N. Bogolubov

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  2. A. A. Logunov

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  4. I. T. Todorov

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  1. U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University, U.S.S.R.

    N. N. Bogolubov  & A. A. Logunov  & 

  2. Institute for High Energy Physics, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

    A. I. Oksak

  3. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Bulgarian Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria

    I. T. Todorov

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Bogolubov, N.N., Logunov, A.A., Oksak, A.I., Todorov, I.T., Gould, G.G. (1990). Algebra of Observables and State Space. In: Bogolubov, N.N., Logunov, A.A., Oksak, A.I., Todorov, I.T. (eds) General Principles of Quantum Field Theory. Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0491-0_6

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