Boundary Conditions that Remove Certain Ultraviolet Divergences
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| author | Tumulka, Roderich |
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| contents | In quantum field theory, Hamiltonians contain particle creation and annihilation terms that are usually ultraviolet (UV) divergent. It is well known that these divergences can sometimes be removed by adding counter-terms and taking limits in which an UV cut-off tends to infinity. Here, I review a novel way of removing UV divergences: by imposing a kind of boundary condition on the wave function. These conditions, called interior-boundary conditions (IBCs), relate the values of the wave function at two configurations linked by the creation or annihilation of a particle. They allow for a direct definition of the Hamiltonian without renormalization or limiting procedures. In the last section, I review another boundary condition that serves for determining the probability distribution of detection times and places on a timelike 3-surface. |
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| spellingShingle | Boundary Conditions that Remove Certain Ultraviolet Divergences Tumulka, Roderich High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics In quantum field theory, Hamiltonians contain particle creation and annihilation terms that are usually ultraviolet (UV) divergent. It is well known that these divergences can sometimes be removed by adding counter-terms and taking limits in which an UV cut-off tends to infinity. Here, I review a novel way of removing UV divergences: by imposing a kind of boundary condition on the wave function. These conditions, called interior-boundary conditions (IBCs), relate the values of the wave function at two configurations linked by the creation or annihilation of a particle. They allow for a direct definition of the Hamiltonian without renormalization or limiting procedures. In the last section, I review another boundary condition that serves for determining the probability distribution of detection times and places on a timelike 3-surface. |
| title | Boundary Conditions that Remove Certain Ultraviolet Divergences |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16180 |