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The meaning of time in an open quantum system is considered under the assumption that both, system and environment, are quantum mechanical objects. The Hamilton operator of the system is non-Hermitian. Its imaginary part is the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-11 Ingrid Rotter

We consider time delay for the Dirac equation. A new method to calculate the asymptotics of the expectation values of the operator $\int\limits_{0} ^{\infty}e^{iH_{0}t}\zeta\left( \frac{\left\vert x\right\vert }{R}\right) e^{-iH_{0}t}dt,$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Ivan Naumkin , Ricardo Weder

The choice of mathematical representation when describing physical systems is of great consequence, and this choice is usually determined by the properties of the problem at hand. Here we examine the little-known wave operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Gerard McCaul , Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Denys I. Bondar

We investigate the spectral consequences of the uniquely determined Hermitian ordering of the Dirac Hamiltonian with spatially varying mass. In contrast to the nonrelativistic case, where continuous families of admissible prescriptions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 C. A. S. Almeida

We demonstrate that the time operator that measures the time of arrival of a quantum particle into chosen state can be defined as a self-adjoint quantum-mechanical operator using periodic boundary conditions on applied to wavefuncions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 P. Bokes

For relativistic closed systems, an operator is explained which has as stationary eigenvalues the squares of the total cms energies, while the wave function has only half as many components as the corresponding Dirac wave function. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Pilkuhn

We formalize the concept of the modular energy operator within the Page and Wootters timeless framework. As a result, this operator is elevated to the same status as the more studied modular operators of position and momentum. In analogy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Ismael L. Paiva , Marcin Nowakowski , Eliahu Cohen

This review is devoted to the study of stationary solutions of linear and nonlinear equations from relativistic quantum mechanics, involving the Dirac operator. The solutions are found as critical points of an energy functional. Contrary to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-27 Maria J. Esteban , Mathieu Lewin , Eric séré

We consider the consistent deformation of the relativistic quantum mechanics introducing the noncommutativity of the space-time and preserving the Lorentz symmetry. The relativistic wave equation describing the spinning particle on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-21 V. G. Kupriyanov

We address the multiplicity of solutions to the time-energy canonical commutation relation for a given Hamiltonian. Specifically, we consider a particle spatially confined in a potential free interval, where it is known that two distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Cristopher F. Caballar , Eric A. Galapon

Dynamic equations concerning physical expectation values have been examined in terms of the real Hilbert space approach to quantum mechanics. The considered cases involve complex wave functions, as well as quaternionic wave functions. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Sergio Giardino

We present a recent work on the Dirac equation in a curved spacetime. In addition to the standard equation, two alternative versions are considered, derived from wave mechanics, and based on the tensor representation of the Dirac field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-10-06 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

The time of arrival at an arbitrary position in configuration space can be given as a function of the phase space variables for the Liouville integrable systems of classical mechanics, but only for them. We review the Jacobi-Lie…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan Leon

This study explores the time-dependent Dunkl-Pauli oscillator in two dimensions. We constructed the Dunkl-Pauli Hamiltonian, which incorporates a time-varying magnetic field and a harmonic oscillator characterized by time-dependent mass and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 A. Benchikha , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

First, I briefly review the different conceptions of time held by three rival interpretations of quantum theory: the collapse of the wave-packet, the pilot-wave interpretation, and the Everett interpretation (Section 2). Then I turn to a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Jeremy Butterfield

We introduced with coauthors some years ago a solution to the problem of time in quantum gravity which consists in formulating the quantum theory in terms of real clocks. It combines Page and Wootters' relational proposal with Rovelli's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-03 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

Based on Lorentz invariance and Born reciprocity invariance, the canonical quantization of Special Relativity (SR) is shown to provide a unified origin for: i) the complex vector space formulation of Quantum Mechanics (QM); ii) the momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 C. A. Aguillón , M. Bauer , G. E. García

We define a quantum-mechanical time operator that is selfadjoint and compatible with the energy operator having a spectrum bounded from below. On their common domain, the operators of time and energy satisfy the expected canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Isidro

By viewing the electron as a wavepacket in the positive energy spectrum of the Dirac equation, we are able to achieve a much clearer understanding of its behavior under weak electromagnetic fields. The intrinsic spin magnetic moment is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-09-11 Chih-Piao Chuu , Ming-Che Chang , Qian Niu

We consider quantum dynamics for which the strict adiabatic approximation fails but which do not escape too far from the adiabatic limit. To treat these systems we introduce a generalisation of the time dependent wave operator theory which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 David Viennot