arXiv:2407.14636

Gluing together Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Mechanics: a look at the Bell-CHSH inequality

M. S. Guimarães, I. Roditi, Silvio Paolo sorella

Published Jul 19, 2024• 0 citations

Abstract

The Bell-CHSH inequality in the vacuum state of a relativistic scalar quantum field is revisited by making use of the Hilbert space ${\cal H} \otimes {\cal H}_{AB}$, where ${\cal H}$ and ${\cal H}_{AB}$ stand, respectively, for the Hilbert space of the scalar field and of a generic bipartite quantum mechanical system. The construction of Hermitian, field-dependent, dichotomic operators is devised as well as the Bell-CHSH inequality. Working out the $AB$ part of the inequality, the resulting Bell-CHSH correlation function for the quantum field naturally emerges from unitary Weyl operators. Furthermore, introducing a Jaynes-Cummings type Hamiltonian accounting for the interaction between the scalar field and a pair of qubits, the quantum corrections to the Bell-CHSH inequality in the vacuum state of the scalar field are evaluated till the second order in perturbation theory.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.14636

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arXiv:2407.14636

Gluing together Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Mechanics: a look at the Bell-CHSH inequality

M. S. Guimarães, I. Roditi, Silvio Paolo sorella

Published Jul 19, 2024• 0 citations

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Abstract

The Bell-CHSH inequality in the vacuum state of a relativistic scalar quantum field is revisited by making use of the Hilbert space

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, where

{\cal H}

and

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stand, respectively, for the Hilbert space of the scalar field and of a generic bipartite quantum mechanical system. The construction of Hermitian, field-dependent, dichotomic operators is devised as well as the Bell-CHSH inequality. Working out the

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AB

\mathcal{H}

and

{\mathcal{H}}_{AB}

AB

(A,B)

refer to Alice and Bob, respectively. A set of bounded Hermitian operators is introduced by making use of the Weyl operators. A CHSH-type correlator is constructed and evaluated in the Fock vacuum by means of canonical quantization. Although the observed violation of the CHSH inequality turns out to be rather small as compared to Tsirelson's bound of quantum mechanics, the model can be employed for the study of Bell's inequalities in the more physical case of gauge theories such as the Higgs models, for which local Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) invariant operators describing both the massive gauge boson as well as the Higgs particle have been devised. These operators can be naturally exponentiated, leading to BRST invariant type of Weyl operators useful to analyze Bell's inequalities within an invariant BRST environment.

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sign(\varphi(f))

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stands for the smeared scalar field, it turns out that the Bell-CHSH correlator can be evaluated in closed analytic form in terms of the imaginary error function. Being the superposition of two coherent states, cat states allow for the existence of interference terms which give rise to a violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality. As such, the present setup can be considered as an explicit realization of the results obtained by Summers-Werner.

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