Books 

Stochastic Processes for Physicists: Understanding Noisy Systems  
(Status: In production at CUP. Now available for pre-order on Amazon)


An Introduction to Quantum Measurement Theory
and its applications in Continuous Measurement, Statisical Mechanics, Feedback Control, etc. 
(Status: In preparation. Completed chapters available below - comments appreciated!)
Contents

1. Quantum Measurement Theory
2. Useful Concepts from Information Theory 
3. Continuous Measurement and Estimation
4. Statistical Mechanics
5. The Quantum-to-Classical Transition
6. Feedback Control
7. Metrology and Adaptive Measurement
8. Quantum Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems

A. Combined Systems: The Tensor Product and Partial Trace
B. Information Theory and Typical States
C. The Haar Measure
D. Proofs of Some Theorems

References  (Ch. 1&2)
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Kurt Jacobs / Department of Physics / Umass Boston