“Weighing” a Closed System and the Time-Energy Uncertainty Principle

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.84.1368MaRDI QIDQ4492709zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Y. Aharonov, B. Reznik

Publication date 17 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906030

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: A gedanken-experiment is proposed for `weighing the total mass of a closed system from within the system. We prove that for an internal observer the time $au$, required to measure the total energy with accuracy $DeltaE$, is bounded according to $auDeltaE>hbar$. This time-energy uncertainty principle for a closed system follows from the measurement back-reaction on the system. We generally examine what other conserved observables are in principle measurable within a closed system and what are the corresponding uncertainty relations.

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