On the Absence of the Zeno Effect in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Physics
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We study the time evolution of decaying particles in renormalizable models of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory. Significant differences between the latter and Non Relativistic Quantum Mechanics are found -in particular, the Zeno effect seems to be absent in such RQFT models. Conventional renormalization yields finite time behavior in some cases but fails to produce finite survival probabilities in others.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9807084,
title = {On the Absence of the Zeno Effect in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory},
author = {R. F. Alvarez-Estrada and J. L. Sanchez-Gomez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9807084},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Revised version of the paper Time evolution and Zeno effect in relativistic quantum field theory. To appear in Phys. Lett. A