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arXiv 2302.07283gr-qchep-thquant-ph
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量子场反作用于经典时空的协变路径积分

Covariant path integrals for quantum fields back-reacting on classical space-time

Jonathan Oppenheim, Zachary Weller-Davies

AI总结:

本文提出一种将时空度规经典处理的协变路径积分框架,通过直接证明完全正定性融合开放量子系统与经典随机动力学,并证明经典场无法产生纠缠,为检验引力量子本质提供理论基础。

摘要:

我们引入了与经典场相互作用的量子场的构型空间路径积分。我们证明,这一做法可以一致地实现,方法是直接证明动力学是完全正定的,而无需借助主方程方法。这些路径积分使人们能够方便地施加时空对称性,包括洛伦兹不变性或微分同胚不变性。它们在尊重对称性原理的同时,推广并融合了开放量子系统的Feynman-Vernon路径积分和经典随机动力学的随机路径积分。我们引入了一种广义相对论的路径积分表述,其中时空度规被经典地处理。该理论是调和广义相对论与量子力学的候选基础理论。该理论具有明显的协变性,并且可能与使用主方程方法导出的理论不等价。我们证明,纠缠不能通过经典场产生,这支持了通过纠缠生成来检验引力量子本质的提议。

英文摘要:

We introduce configuration space path integrals for quantum fields interacting with classical fields. We show that this can be done consistently by proving that the dynamics are completely positive directly, without resorting to master equation methods. These path integrals allow one to readily impose space-time symmetries, including Lorentz invariance or diffeomorphism invariance. They generalize and combine the Feynman-Vernon path integral of open quantum systems and the stochastic path integral of classical stochastic dynamics while respecting symmetry principles. We introduce a path integral formulation of general relativity where the space-time metric is treated classically. The theory is a candidate for a fundamental theory that reconciles general relativity with quantum mechanics. The theory is manifestly covariant, and may be inequivalent to the theory derived using master-equation methods. We prove that entanglement cannot be created via the classical field, reinforcing proposals to test the quantum nature of gravity via entanglement generation.

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