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Detectors, Reference Frames, and Time (Springer Theses) (Hardcover)

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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.

About the Author


Alexander Smith received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2017. He holds an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Junior Fellowship in the Society of Fellows, both at Dartmouth College.

Product Details
ISBN: 9783030109998
ISBN-10: 3030109992
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: July 16th, 2019
Pages: 167
Language: English
Series: Springer Theses