Post-Newtonian corrections to Schrödinger equations in gravitational fields

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB0FBDMaRDI QIDQ5152947zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Philip K. Schwartz, Domenico Giulini

Publication date 28 September 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05181

zbMATH Keywords

formal WKB expansionKlein-Gordon equationnon-relativistic expansionpost-Newtonian expansionquantum matter in gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Canonical quantization (81S08) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: In this paper we extend the WKB-like `non-relativistic' expansion of the minimally coupled Klein--Gordon equation after Kiefer and Singh [1], L"ammerzahl [2] and Giulini and Gro{ss}ardt [3] to arbitrary order in $c^{-1}$, leading to Schr"odinger equations describing a quantum particle in a general gravitational field, and compare the results with canonical quantisation of a free particle in curved spacetime, following Wajima et al. [4]. Furthermore, using a more operator-algebraic approach, the Klein--Gordon equation and the canonical quantisation method are shown to lead to the same results for some special terms in the Hamiltonian describing a single particle in a general stationary spacetime, without any `non-relativistic' expansion.

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