High Energy Physics - Theory
[Submitted on 30 Oct 2021 (v1), last revised 17 Mar 2024 (this version, v5)]
Title:Classical Limit of Yukawa theory from quantum state perspective
View PDFAbstract:Physical systems which can be described by classical fields in classical theory, can also be described by quantum states in quantum field theory. We study the correspondence between the classical field and the quantum state which both describe the same physical systems. We derive the quantum states corresponding to the classical field in the representation expanded by the eigenstates of quantum field operators. This allows us to directly observe the spatial entanglement structure of quantum states and explore the differences and relationships between quantum superposition and classical superposition. We find that if two classical fields are identical in a certain spatial region, then their corresponding quantum states have the same reduced density matrix in that region. This indicates that knowing the classical field in a local region is sufficient to immediately derive the reduced density matrix for that region. According to the correspondence between classical observables and quantum states, we derive the equation of motion in classical theory from the evolution of quantum states in Yukawa theory. This leads to the relativistic classical Yukawa theory, and we further obtain relativistic corrections to the Yukawa potential.
Submission history
From: Wang Qing Prof [view email][v1] Sat, 30 Oct 2021 09:17:19 UTC (31 KB)
[v2] Fri, 3 Jun 2022 12:07:25 UTC (219 KB)
[v3] Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:04:41 UTC (40 KB)
[v4] Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:57:11 UTC (595 KB)
[v5] Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:25:08 UTC (75 KB)
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