Inconstant Planck's constant

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15502097MaRDI QIDQ2809048zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gianpiero Mangano, Alberto Porzio, Fedele Lizzi

Publication date 27 May 2016

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02107

zbMATH Keywords

noncommutative geometryquantum gravityvariation of fundamental constants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coherent states (81R30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

Abstract: Motivated by the Dirac idea that fundamental constant are dynamical variables and by conjectures on quantum structure of spacetime at small distances, we consider the possibility that Planck constant $hbar$ is a time depending quantity, undergoing random gaussian fluctuations around its measured constant mean value, with variance $sigm{a}^2$ and a typical correlation timescale $Deltat$. We consider the case of propagation of a free particle and a one--dimensional harmonic oscillator coherent state, and show that the time evolution in both cases is different from the standard behaviour. Finally, we discuss how interferometric experiments or exploiting coherent electromagnetic fields in a cavity may put effective bounds on the value of $au=sigm{a}^{2}Deltat$.

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