Quantum Coherence and Closed Timelike Curves

Details Quantum Coherence and Closed Timelike Curves Quantum Coherence and Closed Timelike Curves

1995-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502017v1

Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 5681-5686

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

13 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.52.5681

Various calculations of the $S$ matrix have shown that it seems to be non unitary for interacting fields when there are closed timelike curves. It is argued that this is because there is loss of quantum coherence caused by the fact that part of the quantum state circulates on the closed timelike curves and is not measured at infinity. A prescription is given for calculating the superscattering matrix $\$ $ on space times whose parameters can be analytically continued to obtain a Euclidean metric. It is illustrated by a discussion of a spacetime in with two disks in flat space are identified. If the disks have an imaginary time separation, this corresponds to a heat bath. An external field interacting with the heat bath will lose quantum coherence. One can then analytically continue to an almost real separation of the disks. This will give closed timelike curves but one will still get loss of quantum coherence.

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