``Weighing'' a closed system and the time-energy uncertainty principle

Details ``Weighing'' a closed system and the time-energy uncertainty principle ``Weighing'' a closed system and the time-energy uncertainty principle

1999-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906030v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.84:1368-1370,2000

Physics

Quantum Physics

8 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1368

A gedanken-experiment is proposed for `weighing'' the total mass of a closed system from within the system. We prove that for an internal observer the time $\tau$, required to measure the total energy with accuracy $\Delta E$, is bounded according to $\tau \Delta E >\hbar $. This time-energy uncertainty principle for a closed system follows from the measurement back-reaction on the system. We generally examine what other conserved observables are in principle measurable within a closed system and what are the corresponding uncertainty relations.

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