Communications Physics (Nov 2022)

Non-inertial quantum clock frames lead to non-Hermitian dynamics

  • Ismael L. Paiva,
  • Amit Te’eni,
  • Bar Y. Peled,
  • Eliahu Cohen,
  • Yakir Aharonov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-01081-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Relativistic theories brought the operational notion of time to the center stage of physics. Here, the authors show that effective unitary dynamics is not guaranteed if this notion is extended to quantum mechanics when relativistic corrections are considered in relational frameworks.