Roberts, Bryan W. and Butterfield, Jeremy (2020) Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles. [Preprint]

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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.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Roberts, Bryan W. b.w.roberts@lse.ac.uk 0000-0003-0548-1280 Butterfield, Jeremy jb56@cam.ac.uk 0000-0002-0215-5802
Additional Information:	Forthcoming in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series: Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Memoriam Paul Busch
Keywords:	Time-energy uncertainty, particle creation, energy conservation, perturbation theory, Paul Busch, Mandelstam-Tamm uncertainty principle
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Jeremy Butterfield
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2020 02:51
Last Modified:	08 Jul 2020 02:51
Item ID:	17443
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	7 July 2020
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17443

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