Quantum inflation of classical shapes

DOI10.1007/S10701-017-0080-9MaRDI QIDQ2014302zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tim A. Koslowski

Publication date 11 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4815

zbMATH Keywords

inflationquantum effectBohmian trajectoryshape dynamicsconstrained Hamiltonian quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65) Shapes (aspects of topological manifolds) (57N25)

Abstract: I consider a quantum system that possesses key features of quantum shape dynamics and show that the evolution of wave-packets will become increasingly classical at late times and tend to evolve more and more like an expanding classical system. At early times however, semiclassical effects become large and lead to an exponential mismatch of the apparent scale as compared to the expected classical evolution of the scale degree of freedom. This quantum inflation of an emergent and effectively classical system, occurs naturally in the quantum shape dynamics description of the system, while it is unclear whether and how it might arise in a constrained Hamiltonian quantization.

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