Localization and causality in relativistic quantum mechanics
- 15 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 16 (2) , 315-317
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.16.315
Abstract
It is shown that in relativistic quantum mechanics there is no criterion for the strict localization of a state in a bounded space-time region compatible with causality, translation covariance, and the spectral condition (or positivity of energy together with Lorentz covariance).Keywords
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