Causal evolution of wave packets

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVA.95.032106MaRDI QIDQ6278243zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michał Eckstein, Tomasz Miller

Publication date 3 October 2016

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.95.032106

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Miscellaneous topics in measure theory (28E99) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

Abstract: Drawing from the optimal transport theory adapted to the relativistic setting we formulate the principle of a causal flow of probability and apply it in the wave packet formalism. We demonstrate that whereas the Dirac system is causal, the relativistic-Schr"odinger Hamiltonian impels a superluminal evolution of probabilities. We quantify the causality breakdown in the latter system and argue that, in contrast to the popular viewpoint, it is not related to the localisation properties of the states.

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