Automatic regularization by quantization in reducible representations of CCR: point-form quantum optics with classical sources

DOI10.1007/S10773-009-0038-6MaRDI QIDQ735362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marek Czachor, Klaudia Wrzask

Publication date 21 October 2009

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3510

zbMATH Keywords

field quantizationinfrared regularizationoscillator algebraspoint-form dynamicsRenyi entropies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: Electromagnetic fields are quantized in manifestly covariant way by means of a class of reducible representations of CCR. $A_a(x)$ transforms as a Hermitian four-vector field in Minkowski four-position space (no change of gauge), but in momentum space it splits into spin-1 massless photons (optics) and two massless scalars (similar to dark matter). Unitary dynamics is given by point-form interaction picture, with minimal-coupling Hamiltonian constructed from fields that are free on the null-cone boundary of the Milne universe. SL(2,C) transformations and dynamics are represented unitarily in positive-norm Hilbert space describing $N$ four-dimensional oscillators. Vacuum is a Bose-Einstein condensate of the $N$-oscillator gas. Both the form of $A_a(x)$ and its transformation properties are determined by an analogue of the twistor equation. The same equation guarantees that the subspace of vacuum states is, as a whole, Poincar'e invariant. The formalism is tested on quantum fields produced by pointlike classical sources. Photon statistics is well defined even for pointlike charges, with UV/IR regularizations occurring automatically as a consequence of the formalism. The probabilities are not Poissonian but of a R'enyi type with $alpha=1-1/N$. The average number of photons occurring in Bremsstrahlung splits into two parts: The one due to acceleration, and the one that remains nonzero even if motion is inertial. Classical Maxwell electrodynamics is reconstructed from coherent-state averaged solutions of Heisenberg equations. Static pointlike charges polarize vacuum and produce effective charge densities and fields whose form is sensitive to both the choice of representation of CCR and the corresponding vacuum state.

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