Approximate time–energy uncertainty relationship from the fixed-energy sum over paths approach

Author:

Malgieri Massimiliano1ORCID,Zuccarini Giacomo1,Onorato Pasquale2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy

2. Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38123 Povo, Italy

Abstract

In this article, we show how an approximate time–energy uncertainty relationship of the form Δ EΔ t ≃ ℏ can be derived in the context of the fixed-energy sum over paths approach to quantum bound systems. The relationship connects the indeterminacy Δ t on the travel time of the quantum object to the width Δ E of the resonance in the approximate Green function corresponding to an allowed value of energy. The mathematical origin of the relationship is to be tracked to the Fourier transform relationship between the time propagator and energy-dependent Green function; however, the core of the derivation does not use advanced mathematics, may be carried out using mostly graphical and geometrical methods, and may provide insight to students on the meaning and origin of the time–energy uncertainty relationship. Our work may contribute to close a gap by which the time–energy relationship is most often taught with insufficient explanation at elementary level.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy

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