We study the acausal behavior of free massive relativistic particles, as predicted by the Newton-Wigner position operator. The main result is an upper bound for the probability of superluminal propagation speeds. This bound implies the detection probability of acausal events is vanishingly small und
The Newton-Wigner localization concept and noncommutative space
β Scribed by R. M. Mir-Kasimov
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 464 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-4626
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