S. Golden, QUANTIZATION OF TIME - AN IMPLICATION OF STRICTLY-IRREVERSIBLE EVOLUTION OF DYNAMICALLY ISOLATED QUANTUM-SYSTEMS, Physica. A, 208(1), 1994, pp. 65-90
Quantized time-lapses are determined to be an essential feature of the
changes undergone by the energy-eigenfunction-evaluated matrix elemen
ts of statistical operators that evolve in accord with an intrinsic te
mporal discreteness characteristic of strictly-irreversible behavior.
They are inversely proportional to their associated energy differences
, with a proportionality constant that is universal. An analysis of ap
propriate experimental ''quantum-beat'' processes is described which m
ay serve to evaluate the constant. Once it is, a fully-determinable dy
namical theory of strictly-irreversible evolution is the result, in wh
ich, except for temporal-discreteness, the conventional description of
quantum-mechanical systems is maintained.