Quantum nature of time -- proposition of experimental verification
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15088v1
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 04:45:33 GMT
- Title: Quantum nature of time -- proposition of experimental verification
- Authors: Slobodan Prvanovi\'c and Du\v{s}an Arsenovi\'c
- Abstract summary: The proposed experiment can show that it is possible to have superposition of being created in two different moments in time.
It is similar to the case of verification of the possibility of single quantum system to be in the state that is superposition of two different positions in space.
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- Abstract: In quantum mechanics time usually appears as classical parameter which means
that it is treated as being essentially different from spatial coordinates that
are represented by operators. On the other hand, relativity theory demands to
treat space and time on an equal footing and there are many approaches to the
problem how to introduce time operator. In order to support these approaches we
propose the experiment that will clearly expose the equivalence of space and
time regarding the relation towards quantum interference. The proposed
experiment can show that it is possible to have superposition of being created
in two different moments in time, and by measuring standard interference
pattern, it will be shown that there is interference in time. It is similar to
the case of verification of the possibility of single quantum system to be in
the state that is superposition of two different positions in space. If so,
this would mean that there should be exactly the same formal approach to the
space coordinates and time in quantum mechanics since they are all quantum in
their nature.
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