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On the coexistence of position and momentum observables

Quantum Physics 2009-03-18 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We investigate the problem of coexistence of position and momentum observables. We characterize those pairs of position and momentum observables which have a joint observable.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0504168,
  title  = {On the coexistence of position and momentum observables},
  author = {C. Carmeli and T. Heinonen and A. Toigo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0504168},
  year   = {2009}
}