Dependence of the time-reading process of the Salecker-Wigner quantum clock on the size of the clock

DOI10.1007/S10701-015-9938-XMaRDI QIDQ905009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Frenkel

Publication date 14 January 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00840

zbMATH Keywords

quantum clockmeasurement of space-time distancesoptimal mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: It is shown in the present note that the degree of the complexity of the time-reading process of the Salecker--Wigner clock depends on the size of the clock. This dependence leads to a relation between the size and the accuracy of the clock, and suggests a precise optimal value for the size in agreement with the order of magnitude value established by Salecker and Wigner.

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