Evolution in quantum causal histories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/16/320zbMATH Open1045.83033arXivhep-th/0302111OpenAlexW2166683928MaRDI QIDQ4470738FDOQ4470738

Authors: Eli Hawkins, Fotini Markopoulou, Hanno Sahlmann 

Publication date: 15 June 2004

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a precise definition and analysis of quantum causal histories (QCH). A QCH consists of a discrete, locally finite, causal pre-spacetime with matrix algebras encoding the quantum structure at each event. The evolution of quantum states and observables is described by completely positive maps between the algebras at causally related events. We show that this local description of evolution is sufficient and that unitary evolution can be recovered wherever it should actually be expected. This formalism may describe a quantum cosmology without an assumption of global hyperbolicity; it is thus more general than the Wheeler-DeWitt approach. The structure of a QCH is also closely related to quantum information theory and algebraic quantum field theory on a causal set.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302111

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zbMATH Keywords

observablesglobal hyperbolicityquantum statesWheeler-De Witt approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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