Realistic prospects for testing a relativistic local quantum measurement inequality

TL;DR

This paper assesses the experimental feasibility of testing a relativistic local quantum measurement inequality, deriving bounds for coherent states and modeling realistic photodetection to understand trade-offs in detector sensitivity.

Contribution

It provides a new explicit bound for coherent states and models realistic detection scenarios to evaluate measurement trade-offs in relativistic quantum systems.

Findings

Suppressing dark counts tightens click probability

Derived explicit bounds for coherent states

Modelled realistic photodetection scenarios

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.