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

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2013.10.011MaRDI QIDQ339433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. H. Klink, S. Wickramasekara

Publication date 11 November 2016

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

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

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)

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.

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