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Mandelstam and Tamm related the energy spread of an isolated quantum system to the rate at which an observable changes: ΔH ΔR ≥ (ℏ/2)|d⟨R⟩/dt|. Applying this to the projector onto the initial pure state gives a survival probability of at least cos²(ΔH t/ℏ) up to πℏ/(2ΔH), hence a lower bound on the time to reach an orthogonal state. They also extended the observable inequality to statistical mixtures.
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The result uses a time-independent Hamiltonian and an observable without explicit time dependence, with finite relevant variances and well-defined derivatives. Time is an evolution parameter, not a universal self-adjoint operator conjugate to energy; no universal minimum energy-measurement duration is asserted. The cosine bound is restricted to its stated time interval. Energy uncertainty is standard deviation, not the mean energy above the ground state. Not a universal time operator, energy-measurement-duration law, mean-energy speed limit, arbitrary driving or a cosine lower bound after its permitted first quarter-period. Robertson inequality is an inherited input. S.Frenkel is the printed translator, not a scientific coauthor.
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L. Mandelstam; Ig. Tamm
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Energy variance bounds on quantum evolution
Mandelstam and Tamm related the energy spread of an isolated quantum system to the rate at which an observable changes: ΔH ΔR ≥ (ℏ/2)|d⟨R⟩/dt|. Applying this to the projector onto the initial pure state gives a survival probability of at least cos²(ΔH t/ℏ) up to πℏ/(2ΔH), hence a lower bound on the time to reach an orthogonal state. They also extended the observable inequality to statistical mixtures.
Scientific scope
The result uses a time-independent Hamiltonian and an observable without explicit time dependence, with finite relevant variances and well-defined derivatives. Time is an evolution parameter, not a universal self-adjoint operator conjugate to energy; no universal minimum energy-measurement duration is asserted. The cosine bound is restricted to its stated time interval. Energy uncertainty is standard deviation, not the mean energy above the ground state. Not a universal time operator, energy-measurement-duration law, mean-energy speed limit, arbitrary driving or a cosine lower bound after its permitted first quarter-period. Robertson inequality is an inherited input. S.Frenkel is the printed translator, not a scientific coauthor.
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L. Mandelstam; Ig. Tamm
Source-listed authors for the exact contribution; experimental subjects are not autonomous scientific authors. Source support and predecessor work retain separate roles. Individual effort shares and unresolved identities are not inferred.