Reeh-Schlieder Defeats Newton-Wigner: On alternative localization schemes in relativistic quantum field theory

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dc.creatorHalvorson, Hans
dc.date2000-07-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:00:25Z
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dc.descriptionMany of the "counterintuitive" features of relativistic quantum field theory have their formal root in the Reeh-Schlieder theorem, which in particular entails that local operations applied to the vacuum state can produce any state of the entire field. It is of great interest, then, that I.E. Segal and, more recently, G. Fleming (in a paper entitled "Reeh-Schlieder Meets Newton-Wigner") have proposed an alternative "Newton-Wigner" localization scheme that avoids the Reeh-Schlieder theorem. In this paper, I reconstruct the Newton-Wigner localization scheme and clarify the limited extent to which it avoids the counterintuitive consequences of the Reeh-Schlieder theorem. I also argue that neither Segal nor Fleming has provided a coherent account of the physical meaning of Newton-Wigner localization.
dc.description25 pages, LaTeX
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007060
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007060
dc.identifierPhil.Sci. 68 (2001) 111-133
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/88971
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleReeh-Schlieder Defeats Newton-Wigner: On alternative localization schemes in relativistic quantum field theory
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