Statistics on Lefschetz thimbles: Bell/Leggett-Garg inequalities and the classical-statistical approximation

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2021)077MaRDI QIDQ2028283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Millington, Z. G. Mou, P. M. Saffin, Anders Tranberg

Publication date 31 May 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02657

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensionslattice quantum field theorynonperturbative effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

Abstract: Inspired by Lefschetz thimble theory, we treat Quantum Field Theory as a statistical theory with a complex Probability Distribution Function (PDF). Such complex-valued PDFs permit the violation of Bell-type inequalities, which cannot be violated by a real-valued, non-negative PDF. In this paper, we consider the Classical-Statistical approximation in the context of Bell-type inequalities, viz. the familiar (spatial) Bell inequalities and the temporal Leggett-Garg inequalities. We show that the Classical-Statistical approximation does not violate temporal Bell-type inequalities, even though it is in some sense exact for a free theory, whereas the full quantum theory does. We explain the origin of this discrepancy, and point out the key difference between the spatial and temporal Bell-type inequalities. We comment on the import of this work for applications of the Classical-Statistical approximation.

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