Thursday December 6th Ludwigstr. 31 <http://goo.gl/maps/8Q2IJ> /II room 225 Time: 4 to 6 p.m. Talk: Giovanni Valente (Pittsburgh) *Local Disentanglement in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory* * * ABSTRACT In their paper on "Entanglement and Open Systems in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory", Clifton and Halvorson (2001) raised the question whether entanglement between quantum systems can be destroyed by means of local operations and claimed that, contrary to non-relativistic quantum mechanics, this can never be the case in relativistic quantum field theory. In this talk I will argue that Clifton and Halvorson's no-go result applies only to a special kind of local operations, and thereby I will reject their conclusion. In fact, after providing sufficient conditions for local disentanglement to be achieved, I will show that, if the split property holds, there exists a class of local operations which disentangle all states across any pair of spacelike separated quantum field systems. ---- Karim Thébault, MCMP<http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html> philphysmunich is a subscription based electronic mailing list for the announcement of events relating to the foundations and philosophy of physics within Munich. In general, these will be talks, conferences, workshops or public lectures. The intended users of the list include physicists, philosophers and historians of physics. This list is open so all members can post events. Sign up at: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/philphysmunich. To post a message to all the list members, send email to philphysmunich@lists.lrz.de.