Entropic quantization of scalar fields

Journal Article · Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2015 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905997· OSTI ID:22390867

Ipek, Selman; Caticha, Ariel ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY 12222 (United States)

Entropic Dynamics is an information-based framework that seeks to derive the laws of physics as an application of the methods of entropic inference. The dynamics is derived by maximizing an entropy subject to constraints that represent the physically relevant information that the motion is continuous and non-dissipative. Here we focus on the quantum theory of scalar fields. We provide an entropic derivation of Hamiltonian dynamics and using concepts from information geometry derive the standard quantum field theory in the Schrödinger representation.

• OSTI ID: 22390867
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1641, Issue 1; Conference: MAXENT 2014: Conference on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, Clos Luce, Amboise (France), 21-26 Sep 2014; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ENTROPY
GEOMETRY
HAMILTONIANS
INFORMATION
LIMITING VALUES
QUANTIZATION
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
SCALAR FIELDS
SCHROEDINGER PICTURE