On infravacua and the localization of sectors

DOI10.1063/1.532642zbMATH Open0976.81025arXivmath-ph/9806003OpenAlexW1981798951MaRDI QIDQ4701564FDOQ4701564

Authors: Walter Kunhardt 

Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Abstract: A certain class of superselection sectors of the free massless scalar field in 3 space dimensions is considered. It is shown that these sectors, which cannot be localised with respect to the vacuum, acquire a much better localisation, namely in spacelike cones, when viewed in front of suitable ``infravacuum backgrounds. These background states coincide, essentially, with a class of states introduced by Kraus, Polley and Reents as models for clouds of infrared radiation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9806003

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zbMATH Keywords

localizationsuperselection sectorsfree massless scalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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