Localization and the interface between quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and quantum gravity. II: The search of the interface between QFT and QG

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2010.03.002zbMATH Open1228.81045arXiv0912.2886OpenAlexW3125497911MaRDI QIDQ652844FDOQ652844

Authors: Bert Schroer 

Publication date: 17 December 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main topics of this second part of a two-part essay are some consequences of the phenomenon of vacuum polarization as the most important physical manifestation of modular localization. Besides philosophically unexpected consequences, it has led to a new constructive "outside-inwards approach" in which the pointlike fields and the compactly localized operator algebras which they generate only appear from intersecting much simpler algebras localized in noncompact wedge regions whose generators have extremely mild almost free field behavior. Another consequence of vacuum polarization presented in this essay is the localization entropy near a causal horizon which follows a logarithmically modified area law in which a dimensionless area (the area divided by the square of dR where dR is the thickness of a light sheet) appears. There are arguments that this logarithmically modified area law corresponds to the volume law of the standard heat bath thermal behavior. We also explain the symmetry enhancing effect of holographic projections onto the causal horizon of a region and show that the resulting infinite dimensional symmetry groups contain the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2886

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglementquantum gravityquantum mechanicsholographyNewtonquantum field theorymodular localizationlocal quantum physicscurved space timeBorndirect particle interactionslocalization entropyWigner localization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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