Quantum field theory is not merely quantum mechanics applied to low energy effective degrees of freedom

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2595-2603

  Hollands, Stefan ^a   Wald, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Casimir effect; Quantum field theory; Time dependent spacetimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944441673     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GERG.0000048980.00020.9a     Document Type: Article

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