The geometry of spacetime from quantum measurements
arXiv:2111.12724 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.066011
Abstract
We provide a setup by which one can recover the geometry of spacetime from local measurements of quantum particle detectors coupled to a quantum field. Concretely, we show how one can recover the field's correlation function from measurements on the detectors. Then, we are able to recover the invariant spacetime interval from the measurement outcomes, and hence reconstruct a notion of spacetime metric. This suggest that quantum particle detectors are the experimentally accessible devices that could replace the classical 'rulers' and 'clocks' of general relativity.
19 pages, 10 Figures, 2 Appendices. RevTeX 4.2. V3: added a picture illustrating the setup
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