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Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles

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, , Citation Bryan W Roberts and Jeremy Butterfield 2020 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1638 012005 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/1638/1/012005

1742-6596/1638/1/012005

Abstract

In this contribution in honour of Paul Busch, we criticise the claims of many expositions that the time-energy uncertainty principle allows both a violation of energy conservation and particle creation, provided that this happens for a sufficiently short time. But we agree that there are grains of truth in these claims: which we make precise and justify using perturbation theory.

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