Generalised uncertainty relations from superpositions of geometries

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB2160zbMATH Open1477.83031arXiv1812.10045OpenAlexW2963051078WikidataQ127938900 ScholiaQ127938900MaRDI QIDQ5159907FDOQ5159907

Authors: Matthew J. Lake, Marek Miller, Ray F. Ganardi, Zheng Liu, Shi-Dong Liang, Tomasz Paterek 

Publication date: 28 October 2021

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

Abstract: Phenomenological approaches to quantum gravity implement a minimum resolvable length-scale but do not link it to an underlying formalism describing geometric superpositions. Here, we introduce an intuitive approach in which points in the classical spatial background are delocalised, or `smeared', giving rise to an entangled superposition of geometries. The model uses additional degrees of freedom to parameterise the superposed classical backgrounds. Our formalism contains both minimum length and minimum momentum resolutions and we naturally identify the former with the Planck length. In addition, we argue that the minimum momentum is determined by the de Sitter scale, and may be identified with the effects of dark energy in the form of a cosmological constant. Within the new formalism, we obtain both the generalised uncertainty principle (GUP) and extended uncertainty principle (EUP), which may be combined to give an uncertainty relation that is symmetric in position and momentum. Crucially, our approach does not imply a significant modification of the position-momentum commutator, which remains proportional to the identity matrix. It therefore yields generalised uncertainty relations without violating the equivalence principle, in contradistinction to existing models based on nonlinear dispersion relations. Implications for cosmology and the black hole uncertainty principle correspondence are briefly discussed, and prospects for future work on the smeared-space model are outlined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10045

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zbMATH Keywords

minimum lengthquantum gravitygeneralised uncertainty principleextended uncertainty principleminimum momentum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Uncertainty relations, also entropic (81S07) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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