Quantum Theory Seminar

Markus Schröfl, "Relative entropic uncertainty relation for scalar quantum fields"

Europe/Berlin
Abbeanum/Ground floor-HS 2 - Hörsaal 2 (TPI, FSU Jena)

Abbeanum/Ground floor-HS 2 - Hörsaal 2

TPI, FSU Jena

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Description

Entropic uncertainty is a well-known concept to formulate uncertainty 
relations for continuous variable quantum systems with finitely many 
degrees of freedom. Typically, the bounds of such relations scale with 
the number of oscillator modes, preventing a straight-forward 
generalization to quantum field theories. In this work, we overcome this 
difficulty by introducing the notion of a functional relative entropy 
and show that it has a meaningful field theory limit. We present the 
first entropic uncertainty relation for a scalar quantum field theory 
and exemplify its behavior by considering few particle excitations and 
the thermal state.