The dynamics of the Schrödinger-Newton system with self-field coupling

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/7/075002MaRDI QIDQ2806308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Franklin, Y. Guo, K. Cole Newton, M. Schlosshauer

Publication date 17 May 2016

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03380

zbMATH Keywords

collapserelativistic quantum mechanicsself-gravitySchrödinger-Newton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We probe the dynamics of a modified form of the Schrodinger-Newton system of gravity coupled to single particle quantum mechanics. At the masses of interest here, the ones associated with the onset of "collapse" (where the gravitational attraction is competitive with the quantum mechanical dissipation), we show that the Schrodinger ground state energies match the Dirac ones with an error of ~ 10%. At the Planck mass scale, we predict the critical mass at which a potential collapse could occur for the self-coupled gravitational case, m ~ 3.3 Planck mass, and show that gravitational attraction opposes Gaussian spreading at around this value, which is a factor of two higher than the one predicted (and verified) for the Schrodinger-Newton system. Unlike the Schrodinger-Newton dynamics, we do not find that the self-coupled case tends to decay towards its ground state; there is no collapse in this case.

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