Observables in the general boundary formulation

DOI10.1007/978-3-0348-0043-3_8MaRDI QIDQ2902596zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert Oeckl

Publication date 21 August 2012

Published in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0367

zbMATH Keywords

coherent stateexpectation valuegeneral boundary formulationobservablequantizationquantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Coherent states (81R30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We develop a notion of quantum observable for the general boundary formulation of quantum theory. This notion is adapted to spacetime regions rather than to hypersurfaces and naturally fits into the topological quantum field theory like axiomatic structure of the general boundary formulation. We also provide a proposal for a generalized concept of expectation value adapted to this type of observable. We show how the standard notion of quantum observable arises as a special case together with the usual expectation values. We proceed to introduce various quantization schemes to obtain such quantum observables including path integral quantization (yielding the time-ordered product), Berezin-Toeplitz (antinormal ordered) quantization and normal ordered quantization, and discuss some of their properties.

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