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arxiv: quant-ph/0605069 · v1 · submitted 2006-05-07 · 🪐 quant-ph

Time as a quantum observable

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keywords quantumtimeobservablehermitianmechanicsappearscanonicallyconjugate
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Some results are reviewed and developments are presented on the study of Time in quantum mechanics as an observable, canonically conjugate to energy. Operators for the observable Time are investigated in particle and photon quantum theory. In particular, this paper deals with the hermitian (more precisely, maximal hermitian, but non-selfadjoint) operator for Time which appears: (i) for particles, in ordinary non-relativistic quantum mechanics; and (ii) for photons, in first-quantization quantum electrodynamics.

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