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Geometry of the Shannon mutual information in continuum QFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-06-28 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We analyze geometric terms and scaling properties of the Shannon mutual information in the continuum. This is done for a free massless scalar field theory in dd-dimensions, in a coherent state reduced with respect to a general differentiable manifold. As a by-product, we find an expression for the reduced probability density of finding a certain field on a ball. We will also introduce and compute the Fisher information that this probability carries about the location of the observation region. This is an interesting information measure that refers to points in physical space, although in relativistic QFT they are labels and not fluctuating quantum observables.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02040,
  title  = {Geometry of the Shannon mutual information in continuum QFT},
  author = {David R. Junior and Luis E. Oxman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02040},
  year   = {2017}
}

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25 pages