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ONE of the difficulties of modern quantum theory lies in the prediction, in certain circumstances, of high probabilities of transition to negative energy states. This difficulty comes very strikingly into evidence, as O. Klein first pointed out1, in the example of reflection and refraction of electrons at a surface where the electric potential is discontinuous or very rapidly varying.
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FLINT, H. A Limit to the Quantum Theory and the Avoidance of Negative Energy Transitions. Nature 137, 313–314 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137313a0
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