Quantum time

by Prof. Lorenzo Maccone (University of Pavia)

Wednesday 24 Jan 2024, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Rome

1/2-2 - Aula C (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Marzolo)

In textbook quantum mechanics, time is a (classical) 

parameter that is not described by the theory. Famously, there is no 

time observable, which means that there is no theoretical prescription 

of how to perform time measurements, much to the consternation of 

experimentalists who perform time measurements routinely. We describe a 

(slight) extension of quantum mechanics where time is treated as any 

other observable, we explore the implications, and briefly touch on the 

(ongoing) effort to extend this construction to a relativistic setting.