Realistic prospects for testing a relativistic local quantum measurement inequality

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Authors: Riccardo Falcone, Claudio Conti
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Abstract

We investigate the experimental prospects for testing a relativistic local quantum measurement inequality that quantifies the trade-off between vacuum insensitivity and responsiveness to excitations for finite-size detectors. Building on the Reeh--Schlieder approximation for coherent states, we derive an explicit and practically applicable bound for arbitrary coherent states. To connect with realistic photodetection scenarios, we model the detection region as a square prism operating over a finite time window and consider a normally incident single-mode coherent state. Numerical results exhibit the expected qualitative behavior: suppressing dark counts necessarily tightens the achievable click probability.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum Mechanics and Applications Quantum Information and Cryptography Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
15 January 2026
Document type
Preprint