Quantum information processing and relativistic quantum fields

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/7/075007MaRDI QIDQ5416470zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dionigi M. T. Benincasa, L. Borsten, Michel Buck, Fay Dowker

Publication date 20 May 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5205

zbMATH Keywords

measurementMinkowski spacetimequantum fieldsrelativistic quantum informationsuperluminal signallingUnruh-DeWitt detector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Special relativity (83A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: It is shown that an ideal measurement of a one-particle wave packet state of a relativistic quantum field in Minkowski spacetime enables superluminal signalling. The result holds for a measurement that takes place over an intervention region in spacetime whose extent in time in some frame is longer than the light-crossing time of the packet in that frame. Moreover, these results are shown to apply not only to ideal measurements but also to unitary transformations that rotate two orthogonal one-particle states into each other. In light of these observations, possible restrictions on the allowed types of intervention are considered. A more physical approach to such questions is to construct explicit models of the interventions as interactions between the field and other quantum systems such as detectors. The prototypical Unruh-DeWitt detector couples to the field operator itself and so most likely respects relativistic causality. On the other hand, detector models which couple to a finite set of frequencies of field modes are shown to lead to superluminal signalling. Such detectors do, however, provide successful phenomenological models of atom-qubits interacting with quantum fields in a cavity but are valid only on time scales many orders of magnitude larger than the light-crossing time of the cavity.

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