TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.3.089
TI  - Relative entropic uncertainty relation for scalar quantum fields
PY  - 2022/03/10
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.12.3.089
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
SP  - 089
A1  - Floerchinger, Stefan
AU  - Haas, Tobias
AU  - Schröfl, Markus
AB  - Entropic uncertainty is a well-known concept to formulate uncertainty relations for continuous variable quantum systems with finitely many degrees of freedom. Typically, the bounds of such relations scale with the number of oscillator modes, preventing a straight-forward generalization to quantum field theories. In this work, we overcome this difficulty by introducing the notion of a functional relative entropy and show that it has a meaningful field theory limit. We present the first entropic uncertainty relation for a scalar quantum field theory and exemplify its behavior by considering few particle excitations and the thermal state. Also, we show that the relation implies the multidimensional Heisenberg uncertainty relation.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.3.089,
	title={{Relative entropic uncertainty relation for scalar quantum fields}},
	author={Stefan Floerchinger and Tobias Haas and Markus Schröfl},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={12},
	pages={089},
	year={2022},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.3.089},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.3.089},
}