Building spacetime from effective interactions between quantum fluctuations

DOI10.1007/S10701-022-00667-6MaRDI QIDQ6170708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anna Karlsson

Publication date 13 July 2023

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13602

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic limitquantum fluctuationsquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Set functions and measures and integrals in infinite-dimensional spaces (Wiener measure, Gaussian measure, etc.) (28C20) Gaussian processes (60G15) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Special bases (entangled, mutual unbiased, etc.) (81P55) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We describe how a model of effective interactions between quantum fluctuations under certain assumptions can be constructed in a way so that the large-scale limit gives an effective theory that matches general relativity in vacuum regions. This is an investigation of a possible scenario of spacetime emergence from quantum interactions directly in the spacetime, and of how effective quantum behaviour might provide a useful link between detailed properties of quantum interactions and general relativity. The quantum fluctuations are assumed to entangle sufficiently for a cohesive spacetime to form, so that their effective properties can be described relative to a D-dimensional reference frame. To obtain the desired features of a smooth metric with a vanishing Ricci tensor, the quantum fluctuations are modelled as Gaussian probability distributions, with a shape set relative to the interactions coming from the surroundings. At small scales, the propagation through the spacetime is modelled by a Gaussian random walk.

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