QUANTUM MECHANICS IN NONINERTIAL FRAMES WITH A MULTITEMPORAL QUANTIZATION SCHEME I: RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES

DOI10.1142/S0217751X06028898MaRDI QIDQ5484770zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Alba, Luca Lusanna

Publication date 21 August 2006

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502194

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: We introduce a family of relativistic non-rigid non-inertial frames as a gauge fixing of the description of N positive energy particles in the framework of parametrized Minkowski theories. Then we define a multi-temporal quantization scheme in which the particles are quantized, but not the gauge variables describing the non-inertial frames: {it they are considered as c-number generalized times}. We study the coupled Schroedinger-like equations produced by the first class constraints and we show that there is {it a physical scalar product independent both from time and generalized times and a unitary evolution}. Since a path in the space of the generalized times defines a non-rigid non-inertial frame, we can find the associated self-adjoint effective Hamiltonian $hat{H}_{ni}$ for the non-inertial evolution: it differs from the inertial energy operator for the presence of inertial potentials and turns out to be {it frame-dependent} like the energy density in general relativity. After a separation of the relativistic center of mass from the relative variables by means of a recently developed relativistic kinematics, inside $hat{H}_{ni}$ we can identify the self-adjoint relative energy operator (the invariant mass) $hatcalM$ corresponding to the inertial energy and producing the same levels for the spectra of atoms as in inertial frames. Instead the (in general time-dependent) effective Hamiltonian is responsible for the interferometric effects signalling the non-inertiality of the frame but is not interpretable as an energy like in the case of time-dependent c-number external electro-magnetic fields.

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