Causal measurement in quantum field theory: spacetime

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Main Author: Oeckl, Robert
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contents We provide a framework and explicit construction for the regularized measurement of a large class of spacetime-localized observables in bosonic quantum field theory. The measurements fully satisfy relativistic causality and causal transparency, i.e., avoid unphysical superluminal signaling. We show explicitly how the measurement of time-extended observables back-reacts on itself and induces correlations between other measurements in its causal future. Our framework is fully compositional in spacetime and extends previous results on the measurement of instantaneous observables.
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spellingShingle Causal measurement in quantum field theory: spacetime
Oeckl, Robert
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
We provide a framework and explicit construction for the regularized measurement of a large class of spacetime-localized observables in bosonic quantum field theory. The measurements fully satisfy relativistic causality and causal transparency, i.e., avoid unphysical superluminal signaling. We show explicitly how the measurement of time-extended observables back-reacts on itself and induces correlations between other measurements in its causal future. Our framework is fully compositional in spacetime and extends previous results on the measurement of instantaneous observables.
title Causal measurement in quantum field theory: spacetime
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06566