There Are No Causality Problems for Fermi's Two-Atom System

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.73.613MaRDI QIDQ4492221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Detlev Buchholz, J. Yngvason

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9403027

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: A repeatedly discussed gedanken experiment, proposed by Fermi to check Einstein causality, is reconsidered. It is shown that, contrary to a recent statement made by Hegerfeldt, there appears no causality paradoxon in a proper theoretical description of the experiment.

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