Information travels in massless fields in 1+1 dimensions where energy cannot

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/44/445402zbMATH Open1354.83027arXiv1512.05065OpenAlexW3098038695MaRDI QIDQ2834819FDOQ2834819

Authors: Robert H. Jonsson 

Publication date: 24 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been demonstrated that, in (1+1) spacetime dimensions, massless fields can be used for information transmission even between parties that are time-like rather than light-like separated - and even without the receiver obtaining any energy from the sender. Here, it is shown that this phenomenon is not limited to a particular model of signaling device, but is based on general properties of the quantum field: energy propagates strictly only on the lightcone, whereas perturbations to the field amplitude, which can carry information, permeate also the inside of the future lightcone of the sender. It is also shown that this timelike and energyless signaling in massless fields occurs in Dirichlet cavities, which shows that the phenomenon is not confined to setups with a zero mode. Moreover, it is shown that the phenomenon extends beyond perturbation theory, namely by deriving the phenomenon non-perturbatively for the case where the sender and receiver systems are modelled as harmonic oscillators. To illustrate the propagation of energy in massless fields, the energy density is calculated that results from temporarily coupling an Unruh-DeWitt detector at rest to the vacuum of the field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05065

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zbMATH Keywords

energymassless fields\(1+1\) dimensionsenergy propagation in quantum fieldsinformation propagation in quantum fieldsUnruh-DeWitt particle detector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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