Quantum mechanics in noninertial reference frames: violations of the nonrelativistic equivalence principle

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2013.10.011zbMATH Open1348.81265arXiv1303.6273OpenAlexW2060656686MaRDI QIDQ339433FDOQ339433

Authors: W. H. Klink, S. Wickramasekara 

Publication date: 11 November 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In previous work we have developed a formulation of quantum mechanics in non-inertial reference frames. This formulation is grounded in a class of unitary cocycle representations of what we have called the Galilean line group, the generalization of the Galilei group that includes transformations amongst non-inertial reference frames. These representations show that in quantum mechanics, just as is the case in classical mechanics, the transformations to accelerating reference frames give rise to fictitious forces. A special feature of these previously constructed representations is that they all respect the non-relativistic equivalence principle, wherein the fictitious forces associated with linear acceleration can equivalently be described by gravitational forces. In this paper we exhibit a large class of cocycle representations of the Galilean line group that violate the equivalence principle. Nevertheless the classical mechanics analogue of these cocycle representations all respect the equivalence principle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6273

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zbMATH Keywords

equivalence principleGalilean relativityinfinite dimensional Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

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