Detectors, Reference Frames, and Time

By Alexander R. H. Smith

Chapter1. Introduction.- Part1: Detectors in Curved Spacetimes.- Chapter2. Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetimes.- Chapter3. The Unruh-DeWitt Detector and Entanglement Harvesting.- Chapter4. Unruh-DeWitt Detectors in Quotients of Minkowski Space.- Chapter5. Unruh-DeWitt Detectors in (2+1)-dimensional Black Hole Spacetimes.- Part2: Quantum Reference Frames.- Chapter6. Quantum reference frames associated with noncompact groups.- Chapter7. Communication without a shared reference frame.- Part3: Quantizing Time.- Chapter8. The conditional probability interpretation of time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030109992
• ISBN13: 9783030109998
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"