{ "id": "1504.04215", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-04-16T12:58:45.000Z", "updated": "2015-04-16T12:58:45.000Z", "title": "Quantum Time", "authors": [ "Vittorio Giovannetti", "Seth Lloyd", "Lorenzo Maccone" ], "comment": "8 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We give a consistent quantum description of time, based on Page and Wootters' conditional probabilities mechanism, that overcomes the criticisms that were raised against similar previous proposals. In particular we show how the model allows to reproduce the correct statistics of sequential measurements performed on a system at different times.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-04-16T12:58:45.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "03.65.Ta", "06.30.Ft", "03.65.Ud", "03.67.-a" ], "keywords": [ "quantum time", "consistent quantum description", "conditional probabilities mechanism", "sequential measurements", "correct statistics" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.92.045033" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1363690 } } }