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Detector-based measurements for QFT: two issues and an AQFT proposal

Quantum Physics 2025-03-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present and investigate two issues within the measurement scheme for QFT presented by J. Polo-G\'omez, L. J. Garay and E. Mart\'in-Mart\'inez in "A detector-based measurement theory for quantum field theory". We point out some discrepancies that arise when the measurement scheme is applied to contextual field states and show that nn-point function assignments based on local processing regions sometimes lead to inconsistencies. To solve these issues, we modify the measurement scheme to use non-relativistic detectors to induce an update rule for algebraic states in the Haag-Kastler formulation of quantum field theory. In this way, nn-point functions can be consistently evaluated across any region having a definite causal relation with measurements.

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@article{arxiv.2310.06596,
  title  = {Detector-based measurements for QFT: two issues and an AQFT proposal},
  author = {Nicola Pranzini and Esko Keski-Vakkuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.06596},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

16 pages, 4 figures; v1 includes major revisions

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:45:53.128Z