Quantization of time: an implication of strictly-irreversible evolution of dynamically isolated quantum systems

Sidney Golden

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1994, vol. 208, issue 1, 65-90

Abstract: Quantized time-lapses are determined to be an essential feature of the changes undergone by the energy-eigenfunction-evaluated matrix elements of statistical operators that evolve in accord with an intrinsic temporal discreteness characteristic of strictly-irreversible behavior. They are inversely proportional to their associated energy differences, with a proportionality constant that is universal. An analysis of appropriate experimental “quantum-beat” processes is described which may serve to evaluate the constant. Once it is, a fully-determinable dynamical theory of strictly-irreversible evolution is the result, in which, except for temporal-discreteness, the conventional description of quantum-mechanical systems is maintained.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(94)90534-7

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