Time asymmetric quantum theory – III. Decaying states and the causal Poincaré semigroup

DOI10.1002/PROP.200310075zbMATH Open1028.81007arXivhep-th/0212282OpenAlexW2158596196MaRDI QIDQ4707166FDOQ4707166

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Publication date: 10 June 2003

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A relativistic resonance which was defined by a pole of the $S$-matrix, or by a relativistic Breit-Wigner line shape, is represented by a generalized state vector (ket) which can be obtained by analytic extension of the relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger kets. These Gamow kets span an irreducible representation space for Poincar'e transformations which, similar to the Wigner representations for stable particles, are characterized by spin (angular momentum of the partial wave amplitude) and complex mass (position of the resonance pole). The Poincar'e transformations of the Gamow kets, as well as of the Lippmann-Schwinger plane wave scattering states, form only a semigroup of Poincar'e transformations into the forward light cone. Their transformation properties are derived. From these one obtains an unambiguous definition of resonance mass and width for relativistic resonances. The physical interpretation of these transformations for the Born probabilities and the problem of causality in relativistic quantum physics is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212282

zbMATH Keywords

S-matrixPoincaré semigrouplife time \(\tau_R\) of the resonancepole positionrelativistic resonancestransformation property of the Gamow vectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Special relativity (83A05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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• Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for the extended quantum-mechanical Poincaré group and angular correlations of decay products
• Relativistic resonances, relativistic Gamow vectors and representations of the Poincaré semigroup
• Eigenfunction expansions and Lippmann-Schwinger formulas
• On the solvability of two dimensional semigroup gauge theories
• Point-form dynamics of quasistable states
• On the concept of entropy for quantum decaying systems
• Time-symmetrised quantum theory, counterfactuals and `advanced action'
• Observations on unstable quantons, hyperplane dependence and quantum fields
• Groups, special functions and rigged Hilbert spaces
• Semigroup representations of the Poincaré group and relativistic Gamow vectors.

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