Published September 4, 2008
| Version v1
Journal article
Arrival time in quantum field theory
Creators
- 1. School of Optoelectronic Information, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054 (China)
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (United States)
Description
Via the proper-time eigenstates (event states) instead of the proper-mass eigenstates (particle states), free-motion time-of-arrival theory for massive spin-1/2 particles is developed at the level of quantum field theory. The approach is based on a position-momentum dual formalism. Within the framework of field quantization, the total time-of-arrival is the sum of the single event-of-arrival contributions, and contains zero-point quantum fluctuations because the clocks under consideration follow the laws of quantum mechanics
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.07.069Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2008.07.069;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0711.2011v4;
- PII
- S0370-2693(08)00918-0;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 666
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 382-385
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40049917
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EIGENSTATES; FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPIN
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FIELD THEORIES; MECHANICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; VARIATIONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.