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Název: Interference in Quantum Field Theory: Detecting Ghosts with Phases.
Autoři: Marletto, Chiara, Vedral, Vlatko
Zdroj: Annalen der Physik; Sep2023, Vol. 535 Issue 9, p1-9, 9p
Témata: QUANTUM interference, DEGREES of freedom, QUANTUM theory
Abstrakt: This study discusses the implications of the principle of locality for interference in quantum field theory. As an example, it considers the interaction of two charges via a mediating quantum field and the resulting interference pattern in the Lorenz gauge. Using the Heisenberg picture, it is proposed that detecting relative phases or entanglement between two charges in an interference experiment is equivalent to accessing empirically the gauge degrees of freedom associated with the so‐called ghost (scalar) modes of the field in the Lorenz gauge. These results imply that ghost modes are measurable and hence physically relevant, contrary to what is usually thought. They also raise interesting questions about the relation between the principle of locality and the principle of gauge‐invariance. This analysis also applies to linearized quantum gravity in the harmonic gauge, and hence has implications for the recently proposed entanglement‐based witnesses of non‐classicality in gravity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstrakt:This study discusses the implications of the principle of locality for interference in quantum field theory. As an example, it considers the interaction of two charges via a mediating quantum field and the resulting interference pattern in the Lorenz gauge. Using the Heisenberg picture, it is proposed that detecting relative phases or entanglement between two charges in an interference experiment is equivalent to accessing empirically the gauge degrees of freedom associated with the so‐called ghost (scalar) modes of the field in the Lorenz gauge. These results imply that ghost modes are measurable and hence physically relevant, contrary to what is usually thought. They also raise interesting questions about the relation between the principle of locality and the principle of gauge‐invariance. This analysis also applies to linearized quantum gravity in the harmonic gauge, and hence has implications for the recently proposed entanglement‐based witnesses of non‐classicality in gravity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:00033804
DOI:10.1002/andp.202200530