Conservation laws and the foundations of quantum mechanics.

ABSTRACT: In a recent paper, [Y. Aharonov, S. Popescu, D. Rohrlich, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.118 e1921529118 (2021)], it was argued that while the standard definition of conservation laws in quantum mechanics, which is of a statistical character, is perfectly valid, it misses essential features of nature and it can and must be revisited to address the issue of conservation/nonconservation in individual cases. Specifically, in the above paper, an experiment was presented in which it can be proven that in some individual cases, energy is not conserved, despite being conserved statistically. It was felt however that this is worrisome and that something must be wrong if there are individual instances in which conservation does not hold, even though this is not required by the standard

SUBMITTER: Aharonov Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576110 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature