Colóquio de Física 2024 Discute “The Turbulent Vacuum” Ministrado pelo Prof. Dr. A. P. Balachandran do Department of Physics, Syracuse University (USA) | CCEN UFPB

O Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza (CCEN) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), por meio do Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Física (PPGF), realiza o colóquio de Física com o tema da vez "The Turbulent Vacuum", ministrado pelo Prof. Dr. A. P. Balachandran do Department of Physics, Syracuse University (USA), no dia 13/11/2024, às 15h, na sala 201.

The following work is jointly done with M.Asorey, F.Lizzi and G.Marmo. The vacuum state in relativistic quantum field theory is often pictured as devoid of striking properties, as vacuous. But instead the following are true: 1. Atoms or measuring apparatus inserted at space-like distances in vacuum should exhibit no correlations in the above image of the vacuum. But instead if they have localised states with orthogonal wave functions, and atom 1 is in ground state and 2 in an excited state at a space-like distance, either 1 will never be affected by 2 via photon emission (which is absurd) or it will be instantaneously affected violating causality; 2. Fields in a finite region, no matter how small, acting on the vacuum can produce any state in the Hilbert space; 3. Invariance of the vacuum is invariance of the world. (Coleman); 4. There are no localised detectors! (Implications for a causal quantum information theory?).

After discussions of the above, we apply them to the Rindler wedge. There we show that photon cannot be confined to the wedge: there is information leakage out of the wedge (but no unitarity violation). This happens because in QED, infrared effects break Lorentz invariance. The above result has potential applications to black hole information paradox.

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