Time in quantum physics: from an external parameter to an intrinsic observable

DOI10.1007/S10701-009-9400-ZzbMATH Open1214.81011arXiv0909.1899OpenAlexW2072361559MaRDI QIDQ535638FDOQ535638

Authors: Romeo Brunetti, Klaus Fredenhagen, Marc Hoge 

Publication date: 13 May 2011

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the Schroedinger equation, time plays a special role as an external parameter. We show that in an enlarged system where the time variable denotes an additional degree of freedom, solutions of the Schroedinger equation give rise to weights on the enlarged algebra of observables. States in the associated GNS representation correspond to states on the original algebra composed with a completely positive unit preserving map. Application of this map to the functions of the time operator on the large system delivers the positive operator valued maps which were previously proposed by two of us as time observables. As an example we discuss the application of this formalism to the Wheeler-DeWitt theory of a scalar field on a Robertson-Walker spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1899

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zbMATH Keywords

constraintquantum theorytime operatorconditional probabilities in quantum physicspartial observablesWheeler-De Witt equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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