SPACE-TIME LOCALIZATION WITH QUANTUM-FIELDS

Citation
Mt. Jaekel et S. Reynaud, SPACE-TIME LOCALIZATION WITH QUANTUM-FIELDS, Physics letters. A, 220(1-3), 1996, pp. 10-16
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
220
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
10 - 16
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1996)220:1-3<10:SLWQ>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We introduce observables associated with the space-time position of a quantum point defined by the intersection of two light pulses. The tim e observable is canonically conjugated to the energy. Conformal symmet ry of massless quantum fields is used first to build the definition of these observables and then to describe their relativistic properties under frame transformations. The transformations to accelerated frames of the space-time observables depart from the laws of classical relat ivity. The Einstein laws for the shifts of clock rates and frequencies are recovered in the quantum description, and their formulation provi des a conformal metric factor behaving as a quantum observable.