Observers and locality in Everett quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/S10701-011-9543-6zbMATH Open1226.81015arXiv0909.2673OpenAlexW2037492576MaRDI QIDQ649899FDOQ649899

Authors: Mark A. Rubin 

Publication date: 25 November 2011

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

Abstract: A model for measurement in collapse-free nonrelativistic fermionic quantum field theory is presented. In addition to local propagation and effectively-local interactions, the model incorporates explicit representations of localized observers, thus extending an earlier model of entanglement generation in Everett quantum field theory [M. A. Rubin, Found. Phys. 32, 1495-1523 (2002)]. Transformations of the field operators from the Heisenberg picture to the Deutsch-Hayden picture, involving fictitious auxiliary fields, establish the locality of the model. The model is applied to manifestly-local calculations of the results of measurements, using a type of sudden approximation and in the limit of massive systems in narrow-wavepacket states. Detection of the presence of a spin-1/2 system in a given spin state by a freely-moving two-state observer illustrates the features of the model and the nonperturbative computational methodology. With the help of perturbation theory the model is applied to a calculation of the quintessential "nonlocal" quantum phenomenon, spin correlations in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2673

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theorylocalityEverett interpretationDeutsch-Hayden pictureEinstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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