# Time-energy uncertainty as cause of thermal flicker noise

## TL;DR

This paper proposes that quantum energy uncertainty in transition states causes persistent correlations and flicker noise in thermal systems, affecting particle mobility and transition rates.

## Contribution

It introduces a quantum-based explanation for flicker noise by linking energy uncertainty to non-decaying correlations in thermal processes.

## Key findings

- Quantum energy uncertainty leads to non-decaying correlations.
- Flicker noise arises from energy fluctuations in intermediate states.
- Particle mobility can be suppressed due to these quantum effects.

## Abstract

It is shown that if kinetics of quantum transitions takes account of energy uncertainty of intermediate states, then it creates non-decaying correlations and non-averagable (flicker) fluctuations in the energy as well as in rates of transitions-induced irreversible processes, in particular, flicker noise or maybe suppression of mobility (rate of wandering) of particle interacting with thermally equilibrium medium