{ "id": "quant-ph/0202049", "version": "v2", "published": "2002-02-08T10:16:33.000Z", "updated": "2003-06-09T09:51:36.000Z", "title": "Spontaneous localization for a charged particle in non-relativistic quantum mechanics", "authors": [ "F. Miglietta" ], "comment": "6 pages; Sec.2 and Sec.7 substantially rewritten", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "The interaction of a moving charged particle with its coherent electromagnetic field is analysed in the framework of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It is shown that, when this interaction is taken into account, a spatially localized state may have a mean energy lower than the one corresponding to a delocalized state.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2003-06-09T09:51:36.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "non-relativistic quantum mechanics", "charged particle", "spontaneous localization", "mean energy lower", "coherent electromagnetic field" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2002quant.ph..2049M" } } }