Back reaction of clocks and limitations on observability in closed systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 042104-042101

  Casher, Aharon ^a   Reznik, Benni ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GROUND STATE; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BACK REACTION; CLOSED SYSTEMS; IMPULSIVE LIMIT; QUANTUM MEASUREMENT; TIME ENERGY UNCERTAINTY RELATION; VON NEUMANN MEASUREMENT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034297612     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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