期刊名称:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
电子版ISSN:2075-2180
出版年度:2019
卷号:287
页码:163-177
DOI:10.4204/EPTCS.287.9
语种:English
出版社:Open Publishing Association
摘要:We use tools from non-standard analysis to formulate the building blocks of quantum field theory within the framework of categorical quantum mechanics. Building upon previous work, we construct an object of *Hilb having quantum fields as states and we show that the usual ladder and field operators can be defined as suitable endomorphisms. We deal with relativistic normalisation and we obtain the Lorentz invariant Heisenberg picture operators. By moving to a coherent perspective—where the classical time and momentum parameters are replaced by wavefunctions over the parameter spaces—we show that ladder operators and field operators can be obtained by applying the same morphism to plane waves and delta functions respectively. Finally, we formulate the commutation relations diagrammatically and we use them to derive the propagator.