quantum logic

noun — 2 senses

quantum logic

noun
1

Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences A form of non-classical logic which has been abstracted out of quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics

2

Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences A set of events that is closed under a countable disjunction of countably many mutually exclusive events.ᵂᴾ

Quantum mechanics

  • The representation theorem (for quantum logic) shows that these quantum logics form a lattice which is isomorphic to the lattice of subspaces of a vector space with a scalar product.ᵂᴾ

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