Space-time localisation with quantum fields

DOI10.1016/0375-9601(96)00496-3MaRDI QIDQ1967953zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc-Thierry Jaekel, Serge Reynaud

Publication date 7 March 2000

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9606030

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: We introduce observables associated with the space-time position of a quantum point defined by the intersection of two light pulses. The time observable is canonically conjugated to the energy. Conformal symmetry of massless quantum fields is used first to build the definition of these observables and then to describe their relativistic properties under frame transformations. The transformations to accelerated frames of the space-time observables depart from the laws of classical relativity. The Einstein laws for the shifts of clock rates and frequencies are recovered in the quantum description, and their formulation provides a conformal metric factor behaving as a quantum observable.

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