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in the relativistic setting that resembled the position operator in basic quantum mechanics in the sense that at low momenta it approximately agreed with that operator. It also has several famous strange behaviors (see the
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in particular), one of which is seen as the motivation for having to introduce quantum field theory.
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This ensures that the free particle moves at the expected velocity with the given momentum/energy.
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On the relativistic spatial localization for massive real scalar Klein–Gordon quantum particles
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Apparently these notions were discovered when attempting to define a
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Theodore Duddell Newton
Eugene Wigner
position operator
relativistic
quantum particles
Reeh–Schlieder theorem
QM
self adjoint operator
Hegerfeldt theorem
"Localized States for Elementary Systems"
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1949RvMP...21..400N
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10.1103/RevModPhys.21.400
M.H.L. Pryce
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