Friday, May 19, 2017

Is mass an observable in Quantum Mechanics?


One of the postulates of QM mechanics is that any observable is described mathematically by a hermitian linear operator.


I suppose that an observable means a quantity that can be measured. The mass of a particle is an observable because it can be measured. Why then the mass is not described by a linear hermitian operator in QM?




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