On conservation laws in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1921529118MaRDI QIDQ5073249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Y. Aharonov, Sandu Popescu, Daniel Rohrlich

Publication date 5 May 2022

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05041

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: We raise fundamental questions about the very meaning of conservation laws in quantum mechanics and we argue that the standard way of defining conservation laws, while perfectly valid as far as it goes, misses essential features of nature and has to be revisited and extended.

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