Is the usual notion of time evolution adequate for quantum-mechanical systems? II. Relativistic considerations

Yakir Aharonov and David Z. Albert
Phys. Rev. D 29, 228 – Published 15 January 1984
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Abstract

The measurement of nonlocal properties of relativistic quantum-mechanical systems, the compatibility (or lack of it) of two or more such measurements, and various other of their characteristics are considered; and with these notions in hand an old problem (which is to produce a covariant description of the state reduction associated with the measuring process) is attacked, and succumbs. The solution requires us to depart (not as we did in part I of the present work, but in an entirely different direction) from the usual picture of the time evolution of quantum states.

  • Received 17 March 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.29.228

©1984 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yakir Aharonov

  • Physics Department, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel and Physics Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208

David Z. Albert

  • Physics Department, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

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Vol. 29, Iss. 2 — 15 January 1984

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