The boundary is mixed

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2263-2MaRDI QIDQ1787931zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugenio Bianchi, Hal M. Haggard, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date 5 October 2018

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5206

zbMATH Keywords

entanglementgeneral boundary formalismgeneral-covariant statistical mechanicsquantum gravitytensor product decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We show that Oeckl's boundary formalism incorporates quantum statistical mechanics naturally, and we formulate general-covariant quantum statistical mechanics in this language. We illustrate the formalism by showing how it accounts for the Unruh effect. We observe that the distinction between pure and mixed states weakens in the general covariant context, and surmise that local gravitational processes are indivisibly statistical with no possible quantal versus probabilistic distinction.

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