Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles
History and Philosophy of Physics
2020-12-30 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
In this contribution in honour of Paul Busch, we criticise the claims of many expositions that the time-energy uncertainty principle allows both a violation of energy conservation, and particle creation, provided that this happens for a sufficiently short time. But we agree that there are grains of truth in these claims: which we make precise and justify using perturbation theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.03030,
title = {Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles},
author = {Bryan W. Roberts and Jeremy Butterfield},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.03030},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Forthcoming in Journal of Physics: Conference Proceedings, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Memoriam Paul Busch