Study of a self-adjoint operator indicating the direction of time within standard quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2011.09.007MaRDI QIDQ643634zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Y. Strauss, Jonathan Silman, Shai Machnes, L. Horwitz

Publication date 2 November 2011

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3969

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) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: In [J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010) 022104] a self-adjoint operator was introduced that has the property that it indicates the direction of time within the framework of standard quantum mechanics, in the sense that as a function of time its expectation value decreases monotonically for any initial state. In this paper we study some of this operator's properties. In particular, we derive its spectrum and generalized eigenstates, and treat the example of the free particle.

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