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The time-energy certainty relation

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

All energy measurements of a quantum system are prone to inaccuracies. In particular, if such measurements are carried over a finite period of time the accuracy of the result is affected by the length of that period. Here I show an upper bound on such inaccuracies and point out that the bound can be arbitrarily small if many copies of the system are available.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0512223,
  title  = {The time-energy certainty relation},
  author = {Zbyszek P. Karkuszewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0512223},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures. Contains the derivation of results presented in quant-ph/0412073 and quant-ph/0304206