Complementarity of representations in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2003.01.001MaRDI QIDQ720581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Halvorson

Publication date 17 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110102

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^*\)-algebracomplementarityhidden variablesquantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

Abstract: We show that Bohr's principle of complementarity between position and momentum descriptions can be formulated rigorously as a claim about the existence of representations of the CCRs. In particular, in any representation where the position operator has eigenstates, there is no momentum operator, and vice versa. Equivalently, if there are nonzero projections corresponding to sharp position values, all spectral projections of the momentum operator map onto the zero element.

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