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In quantum time (QT) schemes, time is promoted to a degree of freedom, allowing Lorentz covariance to be made explicit for single particles. We ask whether this can be lifted to QFT, so that Lorentz covariance becomes manifest at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 N. L. Diaz

In the light of Newton-Wigner-Wightman theorem of localizability question, we have proposed before a typical generation mechanism of effective mass for photons to be localized in the form of polaritons owing to photon-media interactions. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Izumi Ojima , Hayato Saigo

The physical concept of locality is first analyzed in the special relativistic quantum regime, and compared with that of microcausality and the local commutativity of quantum fields. Its extrapolation to quantum general relativity on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduard Prugovecki

The notions of events and their localisation fundamentally differ between quantum theory and general relativity, reconciling them becomes even more important and challenging in the context of quantum gravity where a classical spacetime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 V. Vilasini , Lin-Qing Chen , Liuhang Ye , Renato Renner

Local kinetic constraints in quantum many-body systems can generate slow dynamics or complete many-body localisation. Here we focus on a modification of the quantum East model: Inspired by random matrix theory, we randomise the connectivity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-04 Achilleas Lazarides

We demonstrate the extraordinary modernity of the 1924/25 "Einstein-Jordan fluctuation conundrum", a Gedankenexperiment which led Jordan to his quantization of waves published as a separate section in the famous Born-Heisenberg-Jordan 1926…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bert Schroer

In this paper a toy model of quantum topology is reviewed to study effects of matter and gauge fields on the topology fluctuations. In the model a collection of N one dimensional manifolds are considered where a set of boundary conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Farzaneh Atyabi

Locality is a central notion in modern physics, but different disciplines understand it in different ways. Quantum field theory focuses on relativistic locality, based on spacetime regions, while quantum information theory focuses circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Andrea Di Biagio , Richard Howl , Časlav Brukner , Carlo Rovelli , Marios Christodoulou

The study of quantum reference frames (QRFs) is motivated by the idea of taking into account the quantum properties of the reference frames used, explicitly or implicitly, in our description of physical systems. Like classical reference…

The relations and differences between various classification problems arising in the context of local two-dimensional conformal QFT, modular invariants, and subfactors are discussed. The extent to which locality implies modular invariance,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -H. Rehren

It is argued that while quantum mechanics contains nonlocal or entangled states, the instantaneous or nonlocal influences sometimes thought to be present due to violations of Bell inequalities in fact arise from mistaken attempts to apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 Robert B. Griffiths

Recent ideas on modular localization in local quantum physics are used to clarify the relation between on- and off-shell quantities in particle physics; in particular the relation between on-shell crossing symmetry and off-shell Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bert Schroer

Quantum field theory (QFT) on non-stationary spacetimes is well understood from the side of the algebra of observables. The state space, however, is largely unexplored, due to the non-existence of distinguished states (vacuum, scattering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-25 Klaus Fredenhagen , Thomas-Paul Hack , Nicola Pinamonti

We extend the framework of general boundary quantum field theory (GBQFT) to achieve a fully local description of realistic quantum field theories. This requires the quantization of non-K\"ahler polarizations which occur generically on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-27 Daniele Colosi , Robert Oeckl

We proposed a third quantization scheme to derive the quantum dynamics of the functional phase space distribution in quantum field theory (QFT). The derivation is straightforward and algorithmic. This readily yields the ballistic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Felix A. Buot

Electromagnetism is the paradigm case of a theory that satisfies relativistic locality. This can be proven by demonstrating that, once the theory's laws are imposed, what is happening within a region fixes what will happen in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Eugene Y. S. Chua , Charles T. Sebens

The identification of physical subsystems in quantum mechanics as compared to classical mechanics poses significant conceptual challenges, especially in the context of quantum gravity. Traditional approaches associate quantum systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Guilherme Franzmann

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

Locally covariant algebraic quantum field theory (LCQFT) satisfies Einstein causality through microcausality and operational no-signalling, yet Bell-type correlations persist in entangled field states across spacelike regions. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Joseph Samper Finberg

The conflict between the locality of general relativity, reflected in its space-time description, and the non-locality of quantum mechanics, contained in its Hilbert space description, is discussed. Gauge covariant non-local observables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeeva Anandan