Nota de FísicaPublicado
The holistic structure of causal quantum theory, its implementation in the Einstein-Jordan conundrum and its violation in some recent particle theories (Dedicated to the memory of Jürgen Ehlers)
Bert Schroer
Datos de la publicación
- Autores
- Bert Schroer
- Tipo
- Nota de Física
- Estado
- Publicado
- Fecha de publicación
- 07/03/2012
- Descripción
- Recent insights into the conceptual structure of localization in QFT ("modular localization") led to clarifications of old unsolved problems. The oldest one is the Einstein-Jordan conundrum which led Jordan in 1925 to the discovery of quantum field theory. This comparison of fluctuations in subsystems of heat bath systems (Einstein) with those resulting from the restriction of the QFT vacuum state to an open subvolume (Jordan) leads to a perfect analogy; the globally pure vacuum state becomes upon local restriction a strongly impure KMS state. This phenomenon of localization-caused thermal behavior as well as the vacuum-polarization clouds at the causal boundary of the localization region places localization in QFT into a sharp contrast with quantum mechanics and justifies the attribute "holstic". In fact it positions the E-J Gedankenexperiment into the same conceptual class as the cosmological constant problem and the Unruh Gedankenexperiment and the problem of the cosmological constant. The holistic structure of QFT resulting from "modular localization" also leads to a revision of the conceptual origin of the crucial crossing property which entered particle theory at the time of the bootstrap S-matrix approach but suffered from incorrect use in the S-matrix settings of the dual model and string theory.
- Año
- 2012
- Número
- CBPF-NF-001/12
- Vínculo con tesis
- No
- Vínculo con beca
- No