Can we make sense out of negative kinetic energy?

arXiv:2610.10040 · quant-ph, hep-th · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Comments: 33 pages, 22 figure

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Regularization — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Metastability — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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