Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles

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Authors
Roberts, BW
Butterfield, J
Publication Date
2020-10-01
Journal Title
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
ISSN
1742-6588
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Volume
1638
Issue
1
Language
en
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Roberts, B., & Butterfield, J. (2020). Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1638 (1) https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1638/1/012005
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In this contribution in honour of Paul Busch, we criticise the claims of many expositions that the time-energy uncertainty principle allows both a violation of energy conservation and particle creation, provided that this happens for a sufficiently short time. But we agree that there are grains of truth in these claims: which we make precise and justify using perturbation theory.</jats:p>
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jpcs_1638_1_012005, j16381005
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1638/1/012005
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/312770
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