Effect of quantum statistics on the gravitational weak equivalence principle

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/21/215014MaRDI QIDQ3462102zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. V. Mousavi, Dipankar Home, A. S. Majumdar

Publication date 4 January 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07875

zbMATH Keywords

arrival time distributionquantum statisticsspinweak equivalence principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We study the effect of quantum statistics on the arrival time distribution of quantum particles computed through the probability current density. It is shown that symmetrization or asymmetrization of the wave function affects the arrival time distribution for even freely propagating particles. In order to investigate the effect of statistics on the weak equivalence principle in quantum mechanics (WEQ), we then compute the mean arrival time for wave packets in free fall. The violation of WEQ through the effect of statistics on the mass-dependence of the mean arrival time is clearly exhibited. We finally evaluate the effect of spin on the violation of WEQ using a different approach by including an explicit spin-dependence in the probability current distribution, and compare it with the approach using particle statistics. Our results show WEQ re-emerges smoothly in the limit of large mass.

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